Presenters
Justice Jones, Wildfire Mitigation Division Program Manager, Austin Fire Department, Austin, Texas
Mike Wharton, Operations Administrator, Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services, Athens, Georgia
Webinar Presentation Abstract
The Forest Restoration Implementation Efficiencies Workshop is a multi-day workshop to facilitate peer-to-peer learning among land managers, forest restoration industry and contractors, and collaborative stakeholders.
This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency Fire and Smoke Modeling Experiment (FASMEE) project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems.
The State of California, LCCs for the Great Basin, California, Desert and North Pacific, and the Southwest Climate Science Center are hosting a joint gathering to foster state-wide collaboration on landscape-scale conservation. The aim is to understand how our work (individually and collectively) contributes to a broader conservation vision for the region.
The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”
Coordinating land management across property boundaries is important in mixed-ownership forest landscapes because many forest health problems such as wildfire and invasive plants occur on scales larger than individual parcels. Despite the ecological importance of coordinated management, it is rare among private landowners.
The RVCC Annual Meeting connects practitioners from across the West, facilitates peer-to-peer learning, and helps participants identify common challenges and opportunities.
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Presenter: Evan Hjerpe, Conservation Economics Institute and Yeon-Su Kim, Northern Arizona University