One of the greatest challenges facing landscape conservation is how to ensure ecosystem-wide conservation goals, such as those articulated in Landscape Conservation Designs, can effectively inform local management plans and actio
Brett Holt and Tom Donnelly will be the presenters for this installment in the FEMA Region 10 Natural Hazards Mitigation Planning Coffee Break Webinar Series.
Most of us in the “wet” forests of western Oregon and Washington got our fill of smoke this past summer from an amazing year of wildfires. For many, the situation was a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. Join us for a webinar/discussion on the role of fire -- past, present and future -- in our backyard “rainforests” of the PNW.
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Large wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western U.S. following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate. Given this increase there is great interest in whether fuels treatments and previous wildfire can alter fire severity patterns in large wildfires.
The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade.
What will you learn?
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. Learn more...
This webinar presents LANDFIRE's Modeling Dynamic-Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS), which supports the need for fire behavior fuel model grids to predict fire behavior, during drought or seasonably dry conditions. These provisional products have been released for the Southwest and Great Basin regions, and are ready for testing and review by those who use LANDFIRE data.