WHERE:  Middle Fork Ranger District, Willamette National Forest, Westfir, Oregon

The conference theme is "Fuels of Today – Fire Behavior of Tomorrow" Understanding Fire Behavior and Fuels for Sound Decision Making and Effective Management

This joint conferences offers a forum where past experience and lessons learned are documented, current work showcased, and emerging ideas/technology presented to provide a strong foundation that will facilitate setting a course to the future that addresses and responds to developing challenges locally, regionally, and globally.

Will Downing will present his thesis, “Fire refugia function and composition in dry mixed-conifer forests of Oregon’s Blue Mountains” on Friday, June 29^th at 9:00am in Richardson 115.  Josh is completing his M.S. under the guidance of major professor Dr. Meg Krawchuk.  Free and open to the public.

This workshop will include emerging technologies such as using UAVs to support wildland fire operations and Simtable fire simulation exercises, as well as smoke modeling and fire effects monitoring. Participants will have opport

We are excited to announce that our 15th Annual Meeting will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico next winter. As a Western coalition we are aiming to diversify participation and partners from different landscapes.

November 18-22, 2019 | Loews Ventana Canyon Resort | Tucson, Arizona

The Conference aims to provide an up to date on the developments in forest fire science and technology and an opportunity to meet persons and institutions, to promote international cooperation in this research and management area.

As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to protect homes and lives similarly rise. Yet protecting communities represents a relatively small portion of the total costs of a wildfire—other short- and long-term impacts yield a variety of costs that often go unrecognized.