Past Events

Fire Adapted Cities: Prescribed Fire Use in Urban & Community Forest Management

Presenters

Justice Jones, Wildfire Mitigation Division Program Manager, Austin Fire Department, Austin, Texas

Mike Wharton, Operations Administrator, Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services, Athens, Georgia

Webinar Presentation Abstract

Prescribed fire is an effective forest and range management tool used to reduce…

Smoke Management Photographic Guide: a visual aid for communicating smoke impacts

What will you learn?
Communicating emissions impacts to the public can sometimes be difficult because quantitatively conveying smoke concentrations is complicated. Regulators and land managers often refer to particulate-matter concentrations in micrograms per cubic meter, but this may not be intuitive or meaningful to everyone. The Smoke Management Photographic Guide was…

2016 SAF National Convention

Is science used to inform fire management and policy decisions?

This webinar will include recent science findings and a case study. Dr. Molly Hunter will present results from an assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions. Surveys and interviews explored factors that facilitate use of fire science. Findings suggest science…

Forest Restoration Implementation Efficiencies Workshop

The Forest Restoration Implementation Efficiencies Workshop is a multi-day workshop to facilitate peer-to-peer learning among land managers, forest restoration industry and contractors, and collaborative stakeholders. The workshop will be held November 1-3, 2016 in Redmond, OR at the Eagle Crest Resort and is presented by the Central Oregon…

Western LCCs and Southwest Climate Science Center Joint Meeting

The State of California, LCCs for the Great Basin, California, Desert and North Pacific, and the Southwest Climate Science Center are hosting a joint gathering to foster state-wide collaboration on landscape-scale conservation. The aim is to understand how our work (individually and collectively) contributes to a broader conservation vision for the region. The purpose of this inaugural meeting…

Expanding the role of prescribed fire on CLFR landscapes

The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”

Across the county, CLFR project participants are thinking about this charge and working to expand the role of…

Wildland Fire Canada 2016

The 2016 Wildland Fire conference will take place this year in Kelowna, BC from October 24th-28th. This year's theme is "Building Resilience." Call for abstracts is now open and topics will focus on anticipating change; designing resilient fire management systems; defining and managing resilient landscapes; and planning smarter, safer, resilient communities. The deadline to submit abstracts is…

Good fences, good neighbors? Coordination across property boundaries among private landowners

Coordinating land management across property boundaries is important in mixed-ownership forest landscapes because many forest health problems such as wildfire and invasive plants occur on scales larger than individual parcels. Despite the ecological importance of coordinated management, it is rare among private landowners. One possible explanation is that the social risks associated with…

Natural Areas Association Conference

Join us in California for the 2016 Natural Areas Conference, Climate Change Adaptation and Natural Areas Management: Turning Words to Action. We will explore strategies and tactics that resource and natural areas managers can employ to prepare for and respond to climate change. The campus of the University of California, Davis will be the setting for this event, which will explore…