Past Events

Good fences, good neighbors? Coordination across property boundaries among private landowners

Coordinating land management across property boundaries is important in mixed-ownership forest landscapes because many forest health problems such as wildfire and invasive plants occur on scales larger than individual parcels. Despite the ecological importance of coordinated management, it is rare among private landowners. One possible explanation is that the social risks associated with…

Natural Areas Association Conference

Join us in California for the 2016 Natural Areas Conference, Climate Change Adaptation and Natural Areas Management: Turning Words to Action. We will explore strategies and tactics that resource and natural areas managers can employ to prepare for and respond to climate change. The campus of the University of California, Davis will be the setting for this event, which will explore…

Women in Fire: Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX)

Key things to know about WTREX:

-This year, WTREX will represent a one-time refocusing of the Nor Cal TREX (working in the same locations with Nor Cal TREX burn hosts); new WTREX locations are anticipated for future years.
-WTREX is an intensive 12-day training exchange that combines practical live-fire training with indoor learning and discussion to advance participants’…

Community risk reduction success stories

The Firewise virtual workshop series provides conference quality, free learning opportunities for wildfire stakeholders, by connecting them with leading researchers and practitioners in a live interactive format. Each session is an hour-long and features a wildfire related topic that closes with questions received directly from participants.

Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment Webinar

This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency Fire and Smoke Modeling Experiment (FASMEE) project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems. The project has two phases.  Phase 1 is ongoing and the main deliverable will be a comprehensive study plan that will include sampling…

Partnership Opportunities with Indian Forestry: A Tribal Perspective

The Society of American Foresters (SAF) and the Intertribal Timber Council (ITC) invite you to attend our first conference to learn about tribal forestry visions and practices, and explore ways in which you and your organization can create, maintain, and improve partnerships. Together, these two organizations are committed to preserving and sustaining our working forestlands. Forested lands…

Responding to drought and water challenges

Please join the Office of Sustainability and Climate Change for a 2-hour introduction to upcoming opportunities related to drought and water challenges.  We will engage Forest Service employees and partners in planning for and adapting to the impacts of drought and other water challenges in the face of a changing climate.

For additional information about the webinar and details…

Klamath River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

Description: The training is organized as an incident, using a Type 3 Incident Management Team. Participants will serve in qualified and trainee firefighting positions on a burn team and will assist with preparing, scouting, briefing, igniting, holding, mop-up, and patrol on numerous controlled burns in the area. We will also complete pre- and post-fire monitoring, train with equipment,…

Biophysical Settings Review in the Great Basin: What it is. How it works. Why it matters.

LANDFIRE launched the current BpS Review project to ask for expert assistance in bringing the models and descriptions up-to-date. Of particular interest to individuals working in the Great Basin or in sagebrush habitats across the West is the big sage “Macro Review.” The Macro Review provides…

From Pixels to Landscapes: Leveraging LANDFIRE for Land Management

Presenter: Randy Swaty, Fire Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy LANDFIRE team

Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/…