Past Events

Using Unmanned Aerial Systems for Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring

In 2011 BLM funded a five year Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) pilot project within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPRA). The NPRA was specifically selected due to its mandate of supplying national energy needs while protecting surface resources and its need to better incorporate resource management goals within a scientifically sound monitoring framework.  …

Adaptation & Mitigation for Working Forestlands: Challenges and solutions in the face of climate change

The Northwestern US provides a high level of current and potential sequestration of greenhouse gases- and forests may be a solution to mitigating emissions and sequestering carbon. This 1½ day workshop will detail the environmental and economic costs and benefits of management alternatives for forestland managers. In addition, it will address pathways and barriers to their adoption.  The…

Job Opportunity - Fire Technology Transfer Specialist

Duties:

• Guide, coordinate and support the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network.
• Identify new and emerging science and technology ready to be shared with the fire and fuels management community.
• Identify management needs, research questions, and technology needs for the Joint Fire Science Governing Board.
• Organize workshops, meetings, roundtables and field…

Job Opportunity

Wildland Fire and Forest Management Program Instructor opening at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR.

Fuels patterns and a fire following mountain pine beetle mortality in the climax lodgepole pine forests of southern central Oregon

The last of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Dave Shaw and Michelle Agne, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management at Oregon State University, will present on November 23rd - Fuels patterns and a fire following mountain pine beetle mortality in the climax lodgepole pine forests of southern central Oregon

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Fire effects: Restoration of watersheds & springs

This session will provide participants with information on trends in fire effects on watersheds, streams, and springs; offer tools to respond to these impacts before and after fires; and foster a discussion on next steps for restoration practitioners. The main focus will be on how land managers and restoration practitioners can foster resilience, restore ecological function, and ease…

Sharing Fire Behavior Practices & Lessons Learned: Fire Season 2015

Target Audience: Fire Behavior Specialists including Fire Behavior Analysts, Long-term Analysts, Geo-…

6th International Fire Ecology & Management Congress

The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) is pleased to announce the 6th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress to be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA.  Since 2000, AFE has hosted a Fire Congress every three years. These events are the largest, most comprehensive meetings on the research and management of wildland fire that are held anywhere in the world.  They provide…

Influence of recent bark beetle outbreaks on wildfire

The second of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Sarah Hart, Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, will present on November 13th - Influence of recent bark beetle outbreaks on wildfire

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Intrusion of pinyon and juniper trees on sagebrush habitat

Description: The opportunistic encroachment of native pinyon and juniper trees into areas formerly dominated by sagebrush has reduced the presence of shrubs and grasses, impacting critical habitat and forage availability. Pinyon and juniper currently occupy 19 million hectares in the Intermountain West. Prior to 1860, it is estimated that 2/3 of pinyon and juniper…