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Post-Wildfire Recovery Through the Principles of Engineering with Nature
Haring
The Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico suffered near total scorching during the Las Conchas Wildfire, a burn which drastically changed the environment and sediment stability of the canyon. After the fire, a 1% chance rain event exhibited a…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

The REBURN Model: Simulating Forest and Fuel Succession and Disturbance Dynamics of Large Landscapes
Prichard, Hessburg
The landscape of eastern Washington, USA is comprised of common temperate forest and nonforest vegetation types distributed along broad topo-edaphic gradients. This landscape acts as the large testbed for presenters Susan Prichard and Paul Hessburg…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

Slack and Scarcity in Wildland Fire
Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

How Wildfire Policies Governing Management of Natural Ignitions Have Evolved Over the Past Century
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

DNA Applications for Terrestrial Wildlife
Pilgrim
Kristy Pilgrim is a Researcher for the Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems program at Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Laboratory Supervisor for the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. She presents interesting case…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Drone-Based Monitoring of Dry Conifer Forest Structure from Tree to Stand Scales
Tinkham
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by Wade Tinkham.
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Engagement in Outdoor Recreation - A Way Forward
Flores, Rushing, Redmore
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by David Flores, Jaclyn Rushing and Lauren Redmore
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Will They Survive? Management Solutions to Increase the Resilience of High-elevation 5-needle Pine Forests to Climate Change, Pests, and Pathogens
Schoettle, Keane, Bentz, Goeking, Jenkins
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by Anna Schoettle, Research Plant Ecophysiologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Bob Keane, Emeritus Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station. .
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Fire Across the Grasslands – What Are We Managing For?
Drobney, Londe, Garrett, Spencer, Symstad
Grasslands in the Great Plains and Midwest are at constant risk from invasion by woody species. Conversion to deciduous woodlands and forests is already widespread in the Midwest and the southern Great Plains. This discussion focuses on the many…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

SCIENCE x Fire: Modeling Risk and Trade-offs
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable…
Year: 2023
Type: Media