Oregon Prescribed Fire Council Meeting
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The Oregon Prescribed Fire Council's annual meeting will be held February 8th and 9th in Corvallis in room 236 at the "old" Peavy Hall on the Oregon State University campus.
Fire & fuels ecology and management in riparian areas of the Klamath-Siskiyous: A workshop and field trip for land managers
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Save the date!
This 1.5 day workshop will explore key questions surrounding riparian area management in a fire-prone environment.
Post-fire associations of butterfly behavior, occupancy, and abundance with environmental variables and nectar sources in the Sierra Nevada, California
Fire can change the quality of habitat for many taxonomic groups, including butterflies. The abundance of nectar-producing plants, and the volume and concentration of the nectar in those plants, peaks in the initial years following a fire.
Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: Seven core principles / Applying principles of landscape restoration within the eastern Cascades
Please join Ryan Haugo, Senior Forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy & Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service for a joint webinar on Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: Seven core principles / Applying principles of landscape restoration within the eastern Cascades.
National Forestry and Wildland Fire Management Conference
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This conference is intended to provide information on the management of the forestry and wildland fire program, with emphasis on both internal and external partnerships which address the maintenance of healthy and productive forests. Additionally, we will work to explore opportunities and strategies focused on the creation of an educated, sustainable workforce.
Region 6 Forest Collaborative Workshop
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On March 30-31, Sustainable Northwest will host the Region 6 Forest Collaboratives Workshop in Hood River, Oregon. The event will be the first time all thirty-three forest collaboratives across Oregon and Washington come together to share knowledge and lessons learned, and advance solutions to common challenges.
Persistance & fire regimes of oak shrubfields suggest increasing dominance with climate change
A number of recent studies in the Southwest region have documented abrupt transitions of conifer-dominated forests to shrubfields following high-severity fire. Little is known about the long-term ecosystem dynamics of these stands, including their successional trajectories and interactions with fire.
Job Opportunity - Natural Resource Worker 2 (Prescribed Fire)
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is recruiting to fill three (3) full time, career seasonal Natural Resource Worker 2 positions located in the Lands Division of the Wildlife Program, in the Omak – Okanogan, Washington area.
Job Opportunity - Forest Crew Supervisor
Crew Supervisor: The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a Forest Crew Supervisor to assist its Prescribed Fire Team Leader on fire management statewide.
Assessing Wildfire Hazards in the Home Ignition Zone
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This seminar is offered by the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA for local fire departments (including VFDs); state fire employees are also eligible if space permits. Travel scholarships are available.