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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

ScienceX Webinar Series
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Prescribed Burns as a Tool to Mitigate Future Wildfire Smoke Exposure
Kelp
Catastrophic wildfires in the western United States pose significant risks to public health, infrastructure, and ecosystems. As these wildfires become more frequent, there is a growing need for a common methodology to identify suitable locations for…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

NWCG Smoke Committee WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group Combined Call - May 2023
This is a combined call for the NWCG Smoke Managers Sub-Committee and the WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group. The intent of this occasional call series is to discuss operational smoke management issues and build understanding between the air…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

More Fire, More People, Less Water: Exploring Wildfire Risks to Water Security in a Changing World
Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Public Release
Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management
Smith, D’Evelyn
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Smoke is NOT Just Smoke
McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

The OBIWAN App: Estimating Property-Level Carbon Storage Using NASA’s GEDI Lidar
Healey, Yang
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Forest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Science and Management of Wildfire, Fish, and Water Resources in the Western US
Belmont
Wildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S., partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At the same time, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the…
Year: 2022
Type: Media