Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene
What is the webinar about?
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.
Resilience in national forest planning
Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for resilient landscapes, and what other factors complicate the achievement of resilient landscape outcomes?
Sharing Science and Lessons Learned: COVID-19 and Wildfire
As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium will be hosting a webinar sharing information about the current state of the science and lessons learned from the 2020 wildfire season. Join us as Dr.
From Parallel Play to Co-Management: Conserving Landscapes at Risk of Wildfire in the American West
Wildfire has fundamentally shaped the western landscapes we seek to conserve. It is a source of renewal and central to the functioning of many ecosystems; as well as a destructive force that threatens communities and conservation values across public and private lands. Wildfire epitomizes myriad connectivities that we cannot escape.
Boundary spanning features for collective action to reduce wildfire risk
Wildfire involves a diversity of land managers, owners, and stakeholders with their own roles and resources. Strategic coordination across this diversity of actors can be challenging. Social science research about collaboration recognizes the importance of building trust, but that can be hard to foster at large scales.
Landscape fuel treatments and wildland fire management strategies within recent large fire events
In this 1-hour webinar, we will present findings from a recently completed study, which was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, on landscape fuel treatment effectiveness within recent large wildfire events in north-central Washington State.
Assessment of Early Implementation of the US Forest Service’s Shared Stewardship Strategy
Researchers from Colorado State University, the University of Oregon, andthe University of Georgia are conducting a five-year study to understandhow efforts that began as part of the US Forest Service SharedStewardship Strategy develop over time, based on interviews with federaland state agency leadership, land managers, and other partners andstakeholders.
Assessing the Work of Wildfires and Identifying Post-fire Management Needs
Landscapes of the Inland West are deeply affected by 100+ years of fire exclusion, the loss of indigenous burning, and expansion and densification of many forests. Today, anthropogenic climate change and wildfires are modifying the structure and composition of forests across the West at rates that far exceed adaptation and restorative treatments.