Zander Evans will share findings from a new report on the Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface.

The southwest Jemez Mountains in central New Mexico have been utilized continuously for the past 2,000 years, and by circa 1300 CE a network of large village sites and fieldhouses created a significant human footprint on this fire-prone landscape.

This training, offered by the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and taught by Ray Guse (Smoked Goose Consulting), will be held as a series of interactive webinars; a fourth session will be added if needed.
Sessions will start at noon Pacific / 1:00 Mountain / 2:00 Central / 3:00 Eastern. 

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The 5th Annual WPFC Conference will be held this coming March 16-17th at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino near Spokane, WA. We will be joining with the Annual EPA Sponsored Smoke Management Meeting (March 14-16). Join us on the 16th for shared presentations and workshops.

As we have done in past meetings, we will bring together burners both public and private, air quality regulators, researchers and others to discuss smoke management and air quality protection in the Pacific Northwest. The devastating wildfire season our Region saw in 2015, the New Ozone Standard, and the new Exceptional Event Policy should make this year’s meeting an interesting one.

The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) is currently seeking a Project Manager to facilitate a collaborative process that will result in a web-based Wildfire Risk Explorer Tool designed to provide immediate on-line access to Wildfire Risk data. The project will begin February, 2016 with an anticipated end date of December 31st, 2018.

In this webinar hosted by Iowa State, Penny Morgan will highlight changing climate in the U.S. northern Rockies and implications for forest fire extent and severity. Drawing on recent research about the past, present and future, she’ll highlight some of the challenges of living with fire in a rapidly changing world.

State and transition (S&T) models are aspatial, nonequilibrium simulations that incorporate multiple ecosystem states linked by pathways representing deterministic (e.g., growth) and probabilistic (e.g., disturbance) transitions.

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.