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Burning Questions: Forest, Fires & People

The 2016 SERNW Regional Conference on ecological restoration will bring together scientists, restoration professionals, and government agencies involved in the practice and science of ecological restoration and management in the Cascadia Bioregion.

California chaparral is a hugely diverse plant community with many endemic species. Because of its fire activity and fire-proneness, chaparral is often removed from areas where people live in order to risk to lives and property. Beyond the direct consequences to wildlife of this vegetation removal, little is known about how wildlife species respond to different management techniques.

All ecosystems are dynamic, changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Modeling large landscapes in the United States requires the collective knowledge of experienced and knowledgeable vegetation and fire experts.

The Central Oregon Ecological Fire Training Exchange is a twelve-day program from April 25 and May 6, 2016. Like other TREX nationally (see TREX infographic attached) and the 2015 Central Oregon TREX (watch our 2015 Central Oregon TREX video HERE) this program is an

The overarching objective of this study is to quantify the responses of plant community as well as small-bodied mammals and mule deer to multiple restoration scenarios following stand-replacing wildfire in the Phillip W. Schneider wildlife management area. The field site was historically renowned as a critical wintering area for mule deer.

Join us Feb 22 for demonstrations of new search functions and fire regime products in the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) that help inform fire management planning and decision-making in the Northwestern US and Northern Rocky Mountain region. 

It's back! Our WUI (Wildland Urban Interface) group has been working hard to put together a great line of speakers ready to talk all-things WUI.

Speaker: Alex Maranghides - Fire Research Division of the National Institute of Standards & Technology