John Saltenberger, Meteorologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, presented A Summary of Fire Season 2016 in OR and WA.
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Travis Paveglio, Assistant Professor at University of Idaho, and Matt Carroll, a Natural Resource Sociologist at Washington State University, presented Creating Fire Adapted Communities: An Interactional Approach.
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Dr. Branda Nowell a Community Psychologist and a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs presented Communications Under Fire: Understanding Capacity for Effective Communication During Large Scale Wildfires.
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Josh Hyde, Program Coordinator, Department of Forest Rangeland and Fire Sciences at University of Idaho presented Smoke Management Photographic Guide: a visual aid for communicating smoke impacts. Watch the video on our YouTube Channel
Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service & Ryan Haugo, Senior Forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy presented Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: Seven core principles / Applying principles of landscape restoration within the eastern Cascades.
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Ilana Abrahamson and Robin Innes, both ecologists for the Fire Modeling Institute in the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke program of the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station, demonstrated 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.
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Kori Blankenship, Fire Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, gave a brief primer on Biophysical Settings (BpS), a review of the dedicated website, and showed how and why the descriptions and expert review are important.
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The last of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Dave Shaw and Michelle Agne, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management at Oregon State University, presented on November 23rd - Fuels patterns and a fire following mountain pine beetle mortality in the climax lodgepole pine forests of southern central Oregon.
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The second of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Sarah Hart, Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, presented on November 13th - Influence of recent bark beetle outbreaks on wildfire.
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The first of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Garrett Meigs, Department of Forestry at the University of Vermont, presented on November 4th - Does wildfire likelihood or severity increase following insect outbreaks in conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest? The video begins at 1:51. Watch the video on our YouTube channel.