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.
Stephen Gage, Asst. Dir., Operations for fire and aviation management USFS & Kevin Martin, Forest Supervisor, Umatilla National Forest presents Large incident risk assessments: The roles of the agency administrator and the resource specialist
Recorded on June 2, 2015
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Cassandra Moseley - Director & Autumn Ellison - Research Assistant, Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon presents: Drivers of Wildfire Suppression Costs
Recorded May 20, 2015
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John Saltenberger, Meteorologist Predictive Services Program Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, Portland OR presents: Climate & Weather Outlook for the 2015 Fire Season in the PNWWatch the webinar on our YouTube Channel!
Rebecca Flitcroft, Research Fish Biologist with the USFS PNW Research Station presents: Vulnerability of spring Chinook and bull trout to broad-scale disturbance processes: wildfire and climate change
Recorded February 9th
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Jessica Halofsky presents Fire severity and post-fire vegetation recovery in riparian areas of the Biscuit and B&B fires, Oregon
Recorded January 26th
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TNC has recently completed with the USFS R6 Ecology Program assessing forest restoration needs across eastern WA, eastern OR and southwest OR. TNC Forest Conservation Director Mark Stern will give a brief introduction from his perspective as a TNC program director and participant in several forest collaboratives. TNC’s Chris Zanger, forest analyst, and Ryan Haugo, senior forest ecologist, will handle the bulk of the presentation. The study, A New Approach to Evaluate Forest Structure Restoration Needs Across Oregon and Washington, appears in the January 2015 issue of Forest Ecology and Management.
Recorded December 2, 2014
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