Past Events

Cascadia Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

The role of people in changing modern U.S. fire regimes

There are three ingredients needed for fire: fuel to burn, hot & dry conditions, and an ignition source. People are changing all three. The area burned has increased over just the past several decades, in western U.S. forests by 1500%. Last year was the most expensive wildfire season ever in the U.S., costing $18 Billion. We need to learn to live with fire, again. But how? Ultimately, we…

Full costs of wildfire

As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to protect homes and lives similarly rise. Yet protecting communities represents a relatively small portion of the total costs of a wildfire—other short- and long-term impacts yield a variety of costs that often go unrecognized. In an analysis of five case studies—the Hayman (2002), Old, Grand Prix, and Padua Complex (2003), Schultz (2010…

Mixed Severity Fire Footprint in the Western Cascades

WHERE:  Middle Fork Ranger District, Willamette National Forest, Westfir, Oregon

WHAT:  Come explore the varied footprint of a mixed severity fire.  The Warner Fire burned approximately 3600 hectares in October, 1991, producing a range of post-fire conditions on the landscape. We will visit a variety of severity expressions, and discuss the spatial pattern and…

Fire refugia function and composition in dry mixed-conifer forests of Oregon’s Blue Mountains

Will Downing will present his thesis, “Fire refugia function and composition in dry mixed-conifer forests of Oregon’s Blue Mountains” on Friday, June 29^th at 9:00am in Richardson 115.  Josh is completing his M.S. under the guidance of major professor Dr. Meg Krawchuk.  Free and open to the public.

Long-Term Vegetation Recovery and Reburn Potential Workshop

This workshop will bring local area and regional managers and scientists together to share recent research findings and discuss their implications for vegetation and wildland fire management. The workshop is designed to facilitate an exchange of ideas between scientists and managers and to encourage collaboration on developing post-fire vegetation management and wildland fire management…

42nd Annual National Indian Timber Symposium

Information about the agenda, lodging, registration and exhibitors will be posted as it becomes available, http://www.itcnet.org/issues_projects/projects_2/symposium.html
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Targeting The Triple Threat: Cheatgrass, Medusahead, and Ventenata: Ecological Impacts, Interactions, and Current Management

Impacts include:

· A continuous bed of fine fuel associated with an increase in frequency and intensity of range wildfire
· Fires can kill or drastically reduce desirable perennial species. Pollinator habitat is reduced
· Forage quality for wildlife and livestock is reduced
· Wildlife species are at risk
· Resulting wildfires are a threat to…

The Fire Continuum Conference

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Linking wildfire burn mosaic and lynx habitat modeling

The incidence of large and severe fire events is increasing in the western United States with long-term implications for future wildfires, landscape successional mosaics, and wildlife habitat abundance and connectivity. Recent research demonstrates that recently burned areas often act as barriers to subsequent fire spread and/or mitigate the severity of subsequent fires. Landscape mosaics of…