Wildfire and Watersheds: Water, Wildlife Habitat & Community Stewardship.

This two-day course provides a foundation for developing and running state-and-transition simulation models of landscape vegetation change using the ST-Sim software (www.syncrosim.com).

Ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern U.S. have increased in density over the last 100 years which has dramatically increased the size and frequency of wildfires. Although wildfires rarely kill animals, they have immediate consequences to bat populations by drastically altering vegetation and thus roosting and foraging opportunities.

Space is limited, so register soon.

Objectives - This event is designed to create dialogue among scientists and managers and to put fire ecology research in the context of real-life limitations and situations that influence decision making and planning.

Find out what resources are available to help you keep your woods healthy, productive & resilient, so you don’t lose your property or home to wildfire. Join your local woodland conservation partners for a free educational forestry workshop.

SageSTEP scientists have now collected 6 years of post-treatment data on 20 sites throughout the Great Basin, and now have a fairly certain understanding of short-term vegetation response to fire and mechanical treatments on at about half of those sites.

oin us on October 6 at 12:00 PM(CST) for a webinar entitled "What's going on in glade soil: effects of edge and fire on mycorrhizae," presented by Alice Tipton, Ph.D. Candidate in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Join the webinar

Fires on sagebrush rangelands are an ever-increasing reality of living in Idaho and the West. Many factors, including invasive plants, drier hotter summers, and human activities, encourage wildfires that threaten both human communities and habitat for native plants and animals.