Rangeland Fire Protection Associations: Fire adaptation and relationships in OR and ID
This webinar presents an overview of RFPAs, which are unique partnerships wherein ranchers and the BLM work together to suppress rangeland wildfires. Using four case studies in Oregon and Idaho, Emily Jane Davis, Oregon State University, discusses the value and outcomes of this approach, as well as challenges and future implications for fire adaptation on the range.
Modeling dynamic fuels: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin and southwestern US
This webinar presents LANDFIRE's Modeling Dynamic-Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS), which supports the need for fire behavior fuel model grids to predict fire behavior, during drought or seasonably dry conditions. These provisional products have been released for the Southwest and Great Basin regions, and are ready for testing and review by those who use LANDFIRE data.
Crook County Cohesive Wildfire Strategy Learning Lab
Join us for a half day of shared learning for ALL stakeholders about the Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy and your role in our complex wildland fire system. The facilitated learning event will bring community and agency leaders together to share information and develop recommended actions for locally relevant wildland fire challenges in Crook County.
Where there's smoke... there's social science! Public perceptions of smoke & communication from multiple regions
The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade.
Effect of fuels management, previous wildfire and fire weather on Rim Fire severity
About the Webinar:
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.
The role of fire - past, present, future - in our backyard "rainforests" of the PNW
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.
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Informing Recovery through Mitigation Planning
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.