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NWFSC June Newsletter
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Lots of smoke, monitoring, and fire training
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June 2023 Newsletter --> Hello NW Fire Science readers!
As I prepare to send this, wildfire is on the front page of news outlets across the globe as dense smoke from a profusion of fires across Canada drift across the US and affect some of the nations's biggest cities like New York City and Philadelphia. In the Northwest as well, more days of poor air quality from smoke over the last decades have been well documented, with more bad air days expected in the future (see OR DEQ report). As the NW prepares for the upcoming wildfire season, these trends highlight once again how important partnerships and the efficient transfer of emerging science on-the-ground are to help prepare for and adapt to this future with more fire.
We've had a busy month. In addition to the Oregon SAF Annual Meeting and the Oregon Prescribed Fire Council annual meeting, we also hosted a fire and fuels monitoring workshop, and in between I participated in a guard school course to get FF2 certification. Plus the usual collection on new fire science publications, news, and online learning opportunities you may be interested in, recapped below. If you have items 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 --> Students learning progressive hose lays and more for FF2 certification. May 2023.
Photos courtesy Autumn Ellison --> Recent publications:
(Published an article? Send it to us!)
New Journal articles (pdf available):
Paywall articles (pdf not available on NWFSC page):
Reports and chapters:
In May we helped facilitate a fire and fuels monitoring workshop with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The workshop had a mixed format with 3 half-days of virtual learning, and a field day that took place in 2 locations (Warm Springs, OR and Colville, WA). Participants came from 7 different tribes across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for this inaugural workshop that we hope to expand on and offer in future years as well! --> Conferences, lectures, workshops, and summits:
Note: For current info on fires and smoke in the region, please check out the CURRENT FIRE INFO page on our website.
National Significant Fire Potential Outlook as of June 1: HERE
News:
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Autumn Ellison, Program Coordinator
NW Fire Science Consortium
201E Richardson Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
nw.fireconsortium@oregonstate.edu Northwest Fire Science Consortium
June 2023 Newsletter --> Hello NW Fire Science readers!
As I prepare to send this, wildfire is on the front page of news outlets across the globe as dense smoke from a profusion of fires across Canada drift across the US and affect some of the nations's biggest cities like New York City and Philadelphia. In the Northwest as well, more days of poor air quality from smoke over the last decades have been well documented, with more bad air days expected in the future (see OR DEQ report). As the NW prepares for the upcoming wildfire season, these trends highlight once again how important partnerships and the efficient transfer of emerging science on-the-ground are to help prepare for and adapt to this future with more fire.
We've had a busy month. In addition to the Oregon SAF Annual Meeting and the Oregon Prescribed Fire Council annual meeting, we also hosted a fire and fuels monitoring workshop, and in between I participated in a guard school course to get FF2 certification. Plus the usual collection on new fire science publications, news, and online learning opportunities you may be interested in, recapped below. If you have items 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 --> Students learning progressive hose lays and more for FF2 certification. May 2023.
Photos courtesy Autumn Ellison --> Recent publications:
(Published an article? Send it to us!)
New Journal articles (pdf available):
- Abatzoglou et al., Earth's Future: Downslope Wind-Driven Fires in the Western United States
- Bosher et al. Disaster Prev. & Mgmt: Stop going around in circles: towards a reconceptualisation of disaster risk management phases
- Brodie et al., Ecol. Appl.: Wildfire facilitates upslope advance in a shade-intolerant but not a shade-tolerant conifer
- Coble et al., Fire Ecol.: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds
- Charnley et al., J. Forestry: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Forest Service: Insights for Local Job Creation and Equity from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Chuvieco et al., Fire: Towards an Integrated Approach to Wildfire Risk Assessment: When, Where, What and How May the Landscapes Burn
- Dahl et al., Env. Res. Letters.: Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests
- Hubert et al., Ecosphere: Contrasting effects of urbanization and fire on understory plant communities in the natural and wildland–urban interface
- Hoffman et al., Fire: A Comparison of Four Spatial Interpolation Methods for Modeling Fine-Scale Surface Fuel Load in a Mixed Conifer Forest with Complex Terrain
- Johnson et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning
- Jose et al., Nat. Hazards: A data‐driven analysis and optimization of the impact of prescribed fire programs on wildfire risk in different regions of the USA
- Lambrou et al., Landscape & Urb. Planning: Social drivers of vulnerability to wildfire disasters: A review of the literature
- Low et al., Fire Ecol.: Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada
- McCormack et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Prescribed burning on private land: reflections on recent law reform in Australia and California
- MacDonald et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the- knowledge synthesis
- Porter et al., Sci. Report: All boreal forest successional stages needed to maintain the full suite of soil biodiversity, community composition, and function following wildfire
- Wheatley et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity
Paywall articles (pdf not available on NWFSC page):
- Carrasco et al., J. Env. Mgmt.: A firebreak placement model for optimizing biodiversity protection at landscape scale
- Fertel et al., Forest Ecol. & Mgmt: Vegetation type change in California’s Northern Bay Area: A comparison of contemporary and historical aerial imagery
- Jung et al., Glob. Change Biol.: Topographic information improves simulated patterns of post-fire conifer regeneration in the southwest United States
- Kee et al., J. Forestry: The Shared Stewardship Strategy in the Southern United States: Lessons Learned
- McDanold et al., Ecol. Modelling: DUET - Distribution of Understory using Elliptical Transport: A mechanistic model of leaf litter and herbaceous spatial distribution based on tree canopy structure
- Tihay-Felicelli et al., Fire Safety J.: Flammability study of decking sections found at the Wildland–Urban interface at different scales
- Tom et al., Ecopsychology: Solastalgia to Soliphilia: Cultural Fire, Climate Change, and Indigenous Healing
Reports and chapters:
- Book Chapter: McFayden et al., Appl. Data Sci.: A Conceptual Framework for Knowledge Exchange in a Wildland Fire Research and Practice Context
- Wildfire Smoke Trends and the Air Quality Index (State of Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality)
- Got Seeds? Strengthening the Reforestation Pipeline in the Western United States. Tree Planters' Notes.
In May we helped facilitate a fire and fuels monitoring workshop with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The workshop had a mixed format with 3 half-days of virtual learning, and a field day that took place in 2 locations (Warm Springs, OR and Colville, WA). Participants came from 7 different tribes across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for this inaugural workshop that we hope to expand on and offer in future years as well! --> Conferences, lectures, workshops, and summits:
- 2023 Northeast-Midwest Regional Prescribed Fire Workshop. Aug. 29-31. Madison, WI.
- Society for Ecological Restoration Conference. June 11-15. Quebec City, Canada
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Fire Science Workshop. June 27-28. Darby, MT.
- Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. July 9-12. Broomfield, CO
- Tenth World Conference on Ecological Restoration. Sept. 26-30. Darwin, Australia
- Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition 19th Annual Meeting. Nov. 1-3. South Lake Tahoe, CA
- NWFSC SPONSORED! 6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop. Nov. 6-10. Santa Fe, New Mexico. More details coming soon.
- NWFSC SPONSORED! Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Dec. 4-8; Monterey, CA.
- Save the date for 2 Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) hosted in Washington!
- Selkirk TREX. October 2-13, 2023 - Northeast Washington
Questions: Email: kara@washingtonrcd.org - Columbia Gorge TREX. October 9-20, 2023 - Glenwood, WA
Questions? Email: sarah@mtadamsstewards.org
- Selkirk TREX. October 2-13, 2023 - Northeast Washington
- New Podcast: Climate Hits Home: Wildfires in the American West, with Kimi Barrett. Resources Radio.
- New Podcast Series: Sandcastles. Description: On the night of the Woolsey Fire, no one could have imagined where they’d be today–they couldn't think much past survival. It was life or death. But in the days and years that followed what this unlikely band of surfers pioneered could have global consequences. When emergency first responders were overwhelmed by Los Angeles County’s most destructive fire, these neighbors and friends stepped up to defend their home turf in Point Dume, Malibu. Their devotion to home drove them to show up for their community in ways no one expected-not even them. Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.
- Living with Fire Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide: Now available in Spanish
- New WildfireSAFE App Improves Firefighter and Public Safety
- The Wildland Fire Histomap: 1st version from the USFS Innovation & Organizational Learning team is now available
- New Website: Wildfire Risk to Communities: free, easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk. Created by USDA Forest Service.
- ICYM our recent webinar, Recorded: Landscape Fuels Treatment Effectiveness
- ICYM our new Storymap: Fire in the Western U.S. Big fires. Big challenges. Big need for regional learning & action
- ICYM our recent webinar, Recorded: Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke impacts in frequently affected communities
- Prescribed Fire Basics: a collection of 11 short modules for introductory audiences. OR State University Extension.
- Recorded: How wildfire policies governing management of natural ignitions have evolved over the past century (SW Fire Science Consortium)
- IFTDSS for prescribed fire plans- An online course
Note: For current info on fires and smoke in the region, please check out the CURRENT FIRE INFO page on our website.
National Significant Fire Potential Outlook as of June 1: HERE
News:
- How to stay safe from the smoke that's spreading from the Canadian wildfires (NPR)
- Where wildfire smoke is hitting the U.S. the hardest — and when it will end (Washington Post)
- How global warming and a wet winter may impact the U.S. wildfire season (NBC News)
- Wildfire smoke costs U.S. workers more than $100 billion a year in pay (CBS News)
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests in our nation’s wildland firefighters (NIFC)
- Almost 40% of land burned by western wildfires can be traced to carbon emissions (LA Times)
- Wildfire smoke continues to cause unhealthy air quality across Oregon, study finds (Statesman Journal)
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Helps Fight Fire and Restore Rare Habitat in the Willamette Valley (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
- The Future of Wildland Fire Management: Investing in Our Workforce (US DOI News)
- Oregon Public Broadcasting:
- Jury begins deliberations in 2020 Labor Day wildfire lawsuit against PacifiCorp
- A wetter spring in Oregon has forecasters worried about an extended fire season
- Insurance firms need more climate change information. Scientists say they can help
- Stalled Oregon Legislature hobbles climate action once again — with millions on the line
- Oregon fire officials urge people living near forests to create a buffer around property
- Wildfires inspire Pacific Northwest artists into action (The Columbian)
- Canada’s record wildfires should be ‘wake-up call’, experts warn (Al Jazeera)
- Cultural Burning: How Age-Old Practices Are Reshaping Wildfire Policy (Federation of American Scientists)
- The Last of the Fire Watchers (Backpacker)
- Prescribed burns need insurance. It’s increasingly hard to get (Marketplace)
- When fire goes feral (High Country News)
- This Lawsuit Could Change How the Forest Service Fights Wildfires (The Atlantic)
- USDA: Biden-Harris Administration Invests in Watershed Infrastructure to Help Communities Recover from, Prepare for Natural Disasters as Part of Investing in America Agenda
- DOI: Update on Expanding Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Services
- ODF: Department seeks scientific articles about salvage logging
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