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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

Using Fire and Grazing to Maintain Productive and Ecologically Resilient Grasslands
Helzer
Fire, grazing, and climate are the major forces that maintain ecological health in grasslands. Today’s grasslands are increasingly threatened by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and degradation of ecological processes and communities…
Year: 2017
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

How do Historical Fire Regimes Influence Avian Distributions in Dry Coniferous Forests?
Saab
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Historical fire regimes have influenced vegetation structure, landscape patchiness, and animal distributions in dry coniferous forests of the Interior West. An Understanding how…
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

Impacts of Thinning and Burning in Spotted Owl Habitat
Hays
On forested lands throughout the Southwest, Mexican spotted owls (Strix occidentalis lucida) are a driver of management activities, as the current Recovery Plan (USFWS 2012) dictates forest treatment guidelines in designated owl habitat. These…
Year: 2015
Type: Media

Immediate Post-Wildfire Effects on Bats in the Southwest
Saunders, Chambers
Ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern U.S. have increased in density over the last 100 years which has dramatically increased the size and frequency of wildfires. Although wildfires rarely kill animals, they have immediate consequences to bat…
Year: 2015
Type: Media

Using Fire to Improve Deer Habitat in the Southern Great Plains
Rideout-Hanzak
Dr. Sandra Rideout-Hanzak, research scientist with the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute and Associate Professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, discussed habitat management of white-tailed deer. She addressed: Using prescribed fire…
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

Restoration of Frequent-Fire Forests: Managing for Resiliency - A Science Basis
Jackson
Ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests in the Southwest United States are experiencing, or have become increasingly susceptible to, large-scale severe wildfire, insect, and disease episodes resulting in altered plant and animal demographics,…
Year: 2014
Type: Media