Webinar

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.

REDapp is a universal fire behavior calculator developed with financial support from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), and in-kind support from fire management agencies across Canada.

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.

Webinar presenters will be: Serra Hoagland, Northern Arizona University and USFS Southern Research Station, and Frank Lake, Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Bruce Roundy, Plant Ecologist at Brigham Young University, will discuss vegetation restoration in response to piñon and juniper control treatments.

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Have you ever wanted to do more with smoke but figured learning the tools would take too long or the programs would be too difficult to run?  

Jeff Ott, Research Geneticist at the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, will discuss methods for large-scale restoration following fire in the Great Basin and will include discussion of aerial seeding and broadcast seeding using minimum-till drills as well as conventional drill seeding.

Discussion topics will include:

Fire and climate history of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Integration of tree-ring and alluvial-sediment methods

Increased wildfire has been observed with the displacement of native cottonwood-willow (Salix and Populus spp.) gallery forests by invasive, non-native tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) in desert riparian zones of North America. Greater post-fire recovery of Tamarix relative to native species suggests a Tamarix fire trajectory where repeated fire excludes native riparian species.