The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network has partnered with the Southwestern Crown Collaborative, USFS - Blackfoot-Swan Restoration Project and Rocky Mountain Research Station, and National Forest Foundation to offer this workshop.
This workshop will take place at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, which is a 28,000-acre, outdoor, dry mixed-conifer forest laboratory and classroom located 30 miles northeast of Missoula, MT.
Workshop objectives:
- Demonstrate and discuss methods for expanding project planning from stand- to landscape-based planning.
- Drawing from the recent publication, Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles, share examples from planning efforts in multi-jurisdictional, fire-prone, mixed-conifer forests in the Northern Rockies.
- Discuss, capture, and disseminate successes and challenges encountered during landscape-based project planning. See also the Landscape-level prescription research brief.
Target audience: Land managers including line officers, planning team members, silviculturists, foresters, resource specialists, scientists, and informed partners to landscape-scale project planning.
Logistics: Lodging is available at Lubrecht Experimental Forest Nov 31 and Dec 1. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days and an optional dinner at Lubrecht will be offered the evening of Dec 1.
Registration now open, and agenda now available.
For some background on applying landscape-level restoration in fire-prone landscapes, view this webinar hosted by the Northwest Fire Science Consortium and presented by Ryan Haugo, Senior Forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy & Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service.