Presenter: Stephen Pyne, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Sustainability Scholar

Beginning in the 1960s the U.S. experienced a revolution in fire policy, science, and practice.  The contours of that reformation on a national scale are becoming sharper with time.  But America is also a confederation of regions, of which three - Florida, California, and the Northern Rockies - are most relevant.

Presenter:Cathie Schmidlin

This webinar will cover the basic steps of public information when interacting with communities, general public and media.

The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is looking for two Fire Ecologists.

Fire Ecologist, GS-0401-9/11 – Permanent, 2 Positions

1 Position will be located at the Wild Rivers Ranger District in Cave Junction, OR and will be responsible for three ranger districts: Wild Rivers, Gold Beach and Powers.

Here is the link for the presentations:
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/2016foresthealth/presentations/

This webinar will discuss two new fire regime publications—Fire Regime Reports and Fire Regime Syntheses—that are now available and spatially searchable in the recently updated user interface for the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS, 

Fuel breaks are common treatments on rangelands where the spread of invasive annuals and subsequent wildfire are a threat to sagebrush ecosystems. Fuel breaks are often seeded with non-native plants such as crested wheatgrass or forage kochia. However, there are alternatives using native grasses and forbs which have been shown to be effective.

Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the 12 largest fires in the Southwest during 2015. He will share summaries of forest types and burn severities for each of the 12 fires.

Chad Kooistra, candidate for PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Dr. Troy Hall, will present his dissertation.