Past Events

Restoring the West Conference 2018

Overcoming land management and restoration challenges to achieve sustained yield of multiple uses on public lands will be the focus of the 12th Annual Restoring the West Conference on October 16-17, 2018 at Utah State University. By law the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and many other governmental agencies must manage their lands for "sustained yield" of "multiple-uses"…

Restoring Resilient Communities in Changing Landscapes

The Society for Ecological Restoration and Society of Wetland Scientists are pleased to announce their joint Pacific Northwest Regional conference October 15-19, 2018 in Spokane, Washington. The conference will also provide a forum for members of North American Chapters of the Society for Ecological Restoration to address regional and continental North American issues of importance to wetland…

Fire Effects Monitoring and Technology Workshop

This workshop will include emerging technologies such as using UAVs to support wildland fire operations and Simtable fire simulation exercises, as well as smoke modeling and fire effects monitoring. Participants will have…

Lessons Learned from Hosting Learn-n-Burn Events

Presenter: Jennifer Fawcett, North Carolina State University and SERPPAS

Webinar Description: "Learn and Burn" workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one…

Use and benefits of NASA's RECOVER for post-fire decision support

Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes increasingly critical to response and rehabilitation efforts. The NASA Rehabilitation Capability Convergence for Ecosystem…

Cascadia Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

The role of people in changing modern U.S. fire regimes

There are three ingredients needed for fire: fuel to burn, hot & dry conditions, and an ignition source. People are changing all three. The area burned has increased over just the past several decades, in western U.S. forests by 1500%. Last year was the most expensive wildfire season ever in the U.S., costing $18 Billion. We need to learn to live with fire, again. But how? Ultimately, we…

Full costs of wildfire

As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to protect homes and lives similarly rise. Yet protecting communities represents a relatively small portion of the total costs of a wildfire—other short- and long-term impacts yield a variety of costs that often go unrecognized. In an analysis of five case studies—the Hayman (2002), Old, Grand Prix, and Padua Complex (2003), Schultz (2010…

Mixed Severity Fire Footprint in the Western Cascades

WHERE:  Middle Fork Ranger District, Willamette National Forest, Westfir, Oregon

WHAT:  Come explore the varied footprint of a mixed severity fire.  The Warner Fire burned approximately 3600 hectares in October, 1991, producing a range of post-fire conditions on the landscape. We will visit a variety of severity expressions, and discuss the spatial pattern and…

Fire refugia function and composition in dry mixed-conifer forests of Oregon’s Blue Mountains

Will Downing will present his thesis, “Fire refugia function and composition in dry mixed-conifer forests of Oregon’s Blue Mountains” on Friday, June 29^th at 9:00am in Richardson 115.  Josh is completing his M.S. under the guidance of major professor Dr. Meg Krawchuk.  Free and open to the public.