NWFSC January '23 Newsletter
Autumn Ellison, Program Coordinator
NW Fire Science Consortium
201E Richardson Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
nw.fireconsortium@oregonstate.edu Northwest Fire Science Consortium
January 2023 Newsletter --> Happy 2023 from NWFSC
Greetings Northwest Fire Science Consortium subscribers,
We hope that you all had an enjoyable end of 2022, wherever the season took you. December was very busy for us as we submitted our proposal for FY 24-25--we'll keep you updated about our exciting new ideas and work plans for the future as we get word back! Be sure to check out all of the new resources below, and if you have any news or resources you want us to highlight in future newsletters, we'd love to hear from you. And as always, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
Autumn Ellison
NWFSC Program Coordinator --> Photo from the field tour during the 5th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop in Asheville, NC in November, where we learned how diverse partners are working together to put prescribed fire on the Asheville watershed landscape, protecting public infrastructure.
Photo: Autumn Ellison Recent publications:
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NEW JOURNAL ARTICLES:
PDF available:
- Arispe et al., Rangeland Ecol & Mgmt: Strategic Partnerships to Leverage Small Wins for Fine Fuels Management
- Champ et al., Intl. J. Disaster Risk Reduction: Actionable social science can guide community level wildfire solutions. An illustration from North Central Washington, US
- Chavardès et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present
- Crist, J. Env. Mgmt.: Rethinking the focus on forest fires in federal wildland fire management: Landscape patterns and trends of non-forest and forest burned area
- Graw & Anderson, Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon
- Hood et al., Fire Ecol.: A framework for quantifying forest wildfire hazard and fuel treatment effectiveness from stands to landscapes
- Hunter & Taylor, Forests: The Economic Value of Fuel Treatments: A Review of the Recent Literature for Fuel Treatment Planning
- Laughlin et. al., Forest Ecol. & Mgmt.: Trends in forest structure restoration need over three decades with increasing wildfire activity in the interior Pacific Northwest US
- Long et. al., Ecol. & Soc.: Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes
- McKinney et al., Fire Ecol.: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness
- Roos et al., Sci. Adv.: Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE
- Sachdeva & McCaffrey, Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Themes and patterns in print media coverage of wildfires in the USA, Canada and Australia: 1986–2016
- Thompson et al., Fire Ecol.: Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives
- Urza et al., Fire Ecol.: Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region
- Vanderhoof et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Contemporary (1984–2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States and ecoregional differences by land ownership
- Williams et al., PNAS: Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply
Paywall articles:
- Chang et al., J. Forestry: The Cost of Forest Thinning Operations in the Western United States: A Systematic Literature Review and New Thinning Cost Model
- Paveglio, Local Devp & Society: The interactional approach to adaptive capacity: Researching adaptation in socially diverse, wildfire prone communities
- Santo et. al., Applied Env. Educ. & Comm.: Communicating with the public about wildland fire preparation, response, and recovery: a review of recent literature. This article was made possible with funding from the Northwest Fire Science Consortium, and presents the work included in our last (2021) synthesis and community-resource infographic guide:
- NWFSC Synthesis: Communicating with the public about wildland fire preparation, response, and recovery. This review paper synthesizes peer-reviewed empirical research published between 2010 and 2021 about wildland fire communication practices.
- NWFSC Resource Guide: Communicating with the public about wildland fire: A resource for practitioners to plan engagement strategies. This infographic summarizes recommendations from a review of 32 research studies about communicating with the public about wildland fire and smoke.
- Wood & Varner, Property and Environmental Research Center with Tall Timbers: Burn Back Better How Western States Can Encourage Prescribed Fire on Private Lands
- Wildland Fire Metareview. USDA Forest Service.
- The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S. 2022 Report. Western Forestry Leadership Coalition.
- An assessment of American Indian forestry research, information needs, and priorities. USDA Forest Service, RMRS.
RECORDED WEBINARS
Developing and Social Vulnerability Index for Wildfire in Oregon
Presented by Mindy Crandall & Caitlyn Reilley; OSU College of Forestry
RECORDING: https://youtu.be/SVGjwycrnrg
Addressing Equity and Environmental Justice in the Forest Service's Wildfire Crisis Strategy
Presented by Susan Charnley & Mark Adams, USFS PNW Research Station
RECORDING: https://youtu.be/XXGYbT2EUwE
Wildfires, Communities, and Environmental Justice
Presented by Francisco Escobedo, US Forest Service Pacific SW Research Station with Alex Enna, Partnership Program Manager Deschutes National Forest
RECORDING: https://youtu.be/hokvaJ9VbAw
Considering Equity in Wildfire Risk and Protection
Presented by Matthew R. Auer, US Forest Service PNW Research Station
RECORDING: https://youtu.be/H-Y5J2qOE6U Conferences, lectures, workshops, and summits:
- NWFSC SPONSORED! Oregon Post-Fire Research and Monitoring Symposium. Webpage. Share what's been learned; Discuss how new discoveries can inform future decisions; Promote collaboration. Feb. 7-9; Corvallis, OR.
- Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) Conference and Tradeshow. Feb. 7-10; San Diego, CA
- Native Seed Conference. March 27-30; Washington, DC.
- Wildland Urban Interface Conference. March 28-30; Reno, NV
- CO Wildland Fire Conference- April 11-14; Fort Collins, CO
- 2023 Central Oregon Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX): April 24th - May 5th, 2023. Application deadline: Feb. 15. Application form.
- NWFSC SPONSORED! Cross-Boundary landscape Restoration Workshop- May 2-4; Fort Collins, CO. Early registration ends 3/1
- 8th International Wildland Fire Conference- May 16-19; Porto, Portugal
- Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Dec. 4-8; Monterey, CA.
New online resources:
Storymaps:
- NEW Storymap: THE WILDFIRE CRISIS STRATEGY. US Forest Service on 10-year Wildfire Crisis Strategy & allocation of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to date.
- Storymap: FireEarth: Understanding what makes people vulnerable to wildfire. National Science Foundation supported FireEarth project.
- New Firetopia Toolbox app illustrates how land use planning can help your community to survive a wildfire. By Headwaters Economics.
- Storymap: Wildfires in North Central Washington. Exploring geography and impacts of recent fires in the region.
- Storymap: Changing Wildfire, Changing Forests. How climate change is affecting fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest.
- Eco-Anxiety & Wildfire, Living with Fire Podcast.
- Come Rain or Shine--Rangelands and Climate change
- New episodes on the Life with Fire Podcast:
- 1/19 Fueling collaboration: Fire and Wildlife- Register
- 2/7 How is fire ecology different than classical ecology? Register
- Spring 2023: Restoring Oregon’s Dry Side Forests: 2 webinars/month through April 2023. Schedule.
- How States Can Better Budget for Wildfires. The Pew Charitable Trust's expert panel will build on the key findings and recommendations from a new Pew study, “Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets.”
- Detecting Wildland Fire at Night, Southwest Fire Science Consortium
- South-Central Oregon Post-Fire Resilience Strategy, Forest Stewards Guild
- Use of RPAS (aka drones) for wildfire mitigation, operations, modeling, and research directions. Canada Wildfire
Note: For updates, news, and current info on fires and smoke in the region, please check out the CURRENT FIRE INFO page on our website.
- Funding: National Forest Foundation 2023 Matching Awards Program, Apply by 1/23
- Job: Wildland Fire Extension Specialist/ Assistant Professor, Utah State University
- White House Releases First-of-a-Kind Indigenous Knowledge Guidance for Federal Agencies (US White House Press Release)
- USDA Forest Service signs 11 new agreements to advance tribal co-stewardship of national forests (USDA Forest Service Press Release)
- Fire risk map ignites controversy (High Country News)
- What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns? (High Country News)
- Millions of homes are being built in fire-prone areas of Mountain West as wildfire risks grow (KUNR Public Radio)
- An arrest in Oregon worries those who want to prescribe more fire on the land (OPB)
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