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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.
BpS descriptions are being reviewed now and for the next few months because vegetation changes and new science opens up missed opportunities and provides more accurate information. There are corrections to be made to the original descriptions, delivery methods are getting better, and modeling software is continually improving.
The 2016 Collaborative Restoration Workshop will be a forum for sharing innovative approaches to collaborative restoration, tools, and lessons about planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration efforts on and around National Forest System lands.
The 2nd International Smoke Symposium will bring together researchers from the atmospheric sciences, the ecological sciences, mathematicians, computer sciences, climatologists, social scientists, health professionals, smoke responders and others to discuss the complex issues of wildland fire smoke and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for innovation and develop