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Conserving Wildlife under Changing Fire Regimes
Jones
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Fire regimes are changing. What will this mean for wildlife? In the face of rapid environmental changes, animals have three choices: adapt, move, or die. Wildlife responses to…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

The Effects of Prescribed Fire on Wildfire Regimes and Impacts
Hunter
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Mammals, Birds x Fire in Western Forests
Sanderlin, Wilson, Thompson
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Exploring pyrodiversity and biodiversity: effects of fire on bird and small mammal communities of the Southwest,…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Spotted Owls x Fire
Lesmeister, Jones, Ganey
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Quantification of wildfire severity in forests for northern spotted owls, Damon Lesmeister, Research Wildlife…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Integration of Fire Ecology and the Bioeconomy into Wildfire Management
Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Dealing with the Triple Threat Invasion– Cheatgrass, Medusahead, & Ventenata
Faircloth, Monaco, Prather, Ransom, Clark
Invasive annual grasses such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), and ventenata (Ventenata dubia) are devastating western natural areas and rangeland at a landscape scale. These grass invasions favor further…
Year: 2019
Type: Media

Scaling up Collaborative Restoration: What can be Learned from Participatory Landscape Simulation Modeling?
Spies, Davis
It is widely recognized that forest restoration needs to be scaled up to landscapes. We describe the findings from the project 'Go big or Go Home?' in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. The goals of the project were to analyze how forest collaboratives…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty
Iniguez, Hedwall, Sieg, Hunter
Do high severity burns lead to conversion to new forest types or a shift from forests to shrublands or grasslands? How do wildlife respond to changing habitats? And, finally, what do these changes tell us about how these ecosystems will respond to…
Year: 2016
Type: Media

Keeping Fire on the Ground: Resource Specialist Perspectives on the Kaibab National Forest
Weintraub, Gonzalez, MacDonald, Gatto, Lyndon, Banks, McLaughlin, Betenson, Hercher
The importance of fire in many western ecosystems cannot be overstated. On the Kaibab National Forest, fire provides habitat for wildlife, maintains watersheds, and supports forest health and productivity. Fire also influences a wide range of values…
Year: 2015
Type: Media

Training Exchanges From the Ground Up
Bailey, Wheeler
Jeremy Bailey and Ben Wheeler discuss the strategy behind the Fire Learning Network's Training Exchanges. They will also describe in detail how to create burn units across multiple landownerships in the Great Plains.
Year: 2015
Type: Media