Webinar
Feb 11 - Fire chemicals on the Alaska landscape
Wildland Fire Chemicals can be extremely effective firefighting tools which may increase the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of firefighting operations on the ground. Fire management agencies use several types of wildland fire fighting chemicals. The specific requirements, uses, and tactics for each type depend on the characteristics of the type of product.
March 30 - Evaluating Strategies for Increasing Native Diversity in Crested Wheatgrass Seedings
Who: Kent McAdoo, Rangeland Resources Specialist, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
What: We will discuss strategies for increasing native plant diversity in crested wheatgrass seedings.
A new age of wildland fuel science
Wildland fuels may be the most important consideration in fire management, not just because they are important inputs for predicting fire behavior (i.e., how fast and intense a fire gets), but also because fuels are the only factor that can effectively be controlled by direct and indirect management manipulation.
Large incident risk assessments: The roles of the agency administrator and the resource specialist
Presented by: Stephen Gage, Asst. Dir., Operations for fire and aviation management USFS & Kevin Martin, Forest Supervisor,
Umatilla National Forest
No pre-registration necessary. Link to the webinar
April 3 - Burning for Birds: Birds, Fire and Southeastern Habitat Management
This webinar will help to underscore the tight interconnections between birds and fire and will focus on four key factors that fire practitioners vary when conducting burns: frequency, season, extent, and ignition pattern.
Risk Management in a Changing Climate - From Community Involvement to Operations
The Association of British Columbia Forest Professionals and the Association of Professional Biologists are pleased to continue offering climate change webinars. The Risk Management in a Changing Climate - From Community Involvement to Operations webinar will be presented by Erik Leslie and Ken Day.
The Southwest Fire Season - 2014 Overview and 2015 Outlook
Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the 12 largest fires in the Southwest during 2014. He will share summaries of forest types and burn severities for each of the 12 fires.