Large wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western U.S. following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate. Given this increase there is great interest in whether fuels treatments and previous wildfire can alter fire severity patterns in large wildfires.
Most of us in the “wet” forests of western Oregon and Washington got our fill of smoke this past summer from an amazing year of wildfires. For many, the situation was a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. Join us for a webinar/discussion on the role of fire -- past, present and future -- in our backyard “rainforests” of the PNW.
Speakers:
Brett Holt and Tom Donnelly will be the presenters for this installment in the FEMA Region 10 Natural Hazards Mitigation Planning Coffee Break Webinar Series.
This webinar will highlight results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on fire management costs.
For millennia, many tribes across North America used fire to promote valued resources.
What will you learn?
Researchers from the USFS PNW Research Station and Case Research synthesized model projections of changes in vegetation and fire across tribal lands in the PNW. They will demonstrate how these changes will impact economically and culturally important ecosystem services and how this information can be used for adaptation planning.
What will you learn?
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. Learn more...