Past Events

March 12 - Learning from our Ancestors: Combining Ancient Knowledge Systems and Modern Science to Achieve Restoration

Webinar presenters will be: Serra Hoagland, Northern Arizona University and USFS Southern Research Station, and Frank Lake, Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Presenters will describe traditional ecological knowledge and invaluable contributions of Native wisdom to ecological restoration. They will describe specific case studies where traditional ecological knowledge was incorporated…

Preparing for Wildfires: Moving from Crisis to Opportunity

This workshop will equip Cooperative Extension professionals and other community leaders with the tools needed to successfully face the challenges of living in wildfire-prone environments.  National-level scientists and experts will help attendees think through all aspects and stages of fire – before, during, and after – in both urban and rural landscapes.  Extension personnel will…

March 5 - Vegetation restoration in response to pinon and juniper control treatments

Bruce Roundy, Plant Ecologist at Brigham Young University, will discuss vegetation restoration in response to piñon and juniper control treatments.

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March 4 - Post-fire Seeding Methods for Establishing Diverse Native Communities in the Great Basin

Jeff Ott, Research Geneticist at the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, will discuss methods for large-scale restoration following fire in the Great Basin and will include discussion of aerial seeding and broadcast seeding using minimum-till drills as well as conventional drill seeding.

Feb 26 - Fire Columns and Plume Dynamics

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Feb 26 - Resilience and Regeneration after Wildfire in Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests of the US Northern Rockies

Kerry Kemp, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Idaho, will present her research on the patterns of post-fire regeneration of tree species across gradients in elevation, latitude, aspect, and burn severity in dry-mixed conifer forests of the US Northern Rockies burned 5 to 13 years prior. Kemp's research investigated…

Feb 25 - Landscaping and home design for fire defense

Join us for the second in our WUI Webinar series "Landscaping and home design for fire defense." We'll be hearing from Yana Valachovic, UC Cooperative Extension.

During this Webinar, Yana Valachovic will discuss the types,…

Feb 25 - Fire & Climate History of the San Juans Mountains, CO

Fire and climate history of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Integration of tree-ring and alluvial-sediment methods

This webinar presents research on the historical fire regimes of the western San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, where the landscape provided a unique opportunity to sample tree-ring and alluvial-sediment records in the same study sites.…

Seminar Feb 19 - A Tree Mortality Based Fire Severity Classification from Forest Surveys

Seminar: A Tree Mortality Based Fire Severity Classification from Forest Surveys: Statistical Estimates of Burned Area, A Finer-Grain Classification, & Doubts about MTBS,

Thom Whittier, Senior Faculty Research Assistant (FES)

Feb 19 - Network of Fire Science Champions

The kickoff topic for this Network of Fire Science Champions call will be Ushering in a New Age of Wildland Fuel Science…