Past Events

Resilience in national forest planning

Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for resilient landscapes, and what other factors complicate the achievement of resilient landscape outcomes? In this webinar we will present the…

Sharing Science and Lessons Learned: COVID-19 and Wildfire

As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium will be hosting a webinar sharing information about the current state of the science and lessons learned from the 2020 wildfire season. Join us as Dr. Kathleen…

Oregon Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX)

Please see attachment for information on both the Central Oregon TREX and the Ashland, OR TREX.

POSTPONED - Pacific Northwest Forest Collaborative Workshop

Due to increasing travel restrictions set by our agency partners, and direction from both Governor Brown (OR) and Governor Inslee (WA), we have decided to postpone this workshop until the fall. We prioritize the health and safety of our attendees, and hope that by then there will be greater clarity around COVID-19.

We are working hard to reschedule this event and will be sending out…

POSTPONED - 5th Central Oregon Fire Science Symposium

In light of the recent recommendations and direction by both Governor Brown (OR) and Governor Inslee (WA), as well as travel restrictions set by our agency partners, we have decided to postpone the Central Oregon Fire Science Symposium until later in 2020 or even early 2021.  We want to be mindful of the health and safety of all symposium participants.

We apologize for any…

Oregon Prescribed Fire Council Meeting (now by ZOOM)

Update:

Due to the uncertainties about the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus and growing number of institutions with travel restrictions, we have decided to cancel the in-person meeting of the Oregon Prescribed Fire Council meeting next week. We will be refunding all registrations.

In lieu of an in-person…

Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State 2020 Conference

The biennial Forest Health in Oregon conference and scientific update is a great opportunity to hear from researchers and members of the forestry community about the current condition of Oregon’s forests, forest health trends, challenges, current research, and silvicultural solutions. Geared to foresters, forest managers, woodland owners, students, policymakers, and others with an interest in…

Lunch and Learn: Boundary-Spanning for Collective Action: Managing Wildfire Risk in the West

Many land managers in the US West increasingly are trying to expand the pace and scale of wildfire risk reduction by working across larger landscapes and ownership boundaries. What does it take to truly coordinate this work at scale among organizations with different missions and mandates? From an applied social science perspective, we will use case studies of both forests and rangelands in…

Effects of scale on remote sensing assessments of burn severity in a ponderosa pine forest

2020 Oregon Fire Prevention Workshop

The workshop will provide structural and wildland fire prevention educational sessions, networking opportunities, and more. The sessions include:

• Camp Fire (Paradise, CA) Panel
• Wildfire Ignition by Firearms and Exploding Targets
• Enhanced Smoke Alarms and New UL Testing
• Wildfire Mitigation & Citizen Science
• Poverty/Homelessness (related to…