Past Events

Wildfires, Erosion, and Deposition across the Western United States

The area burned by wildfires has increased in recent decades and is expected to increase in the future for many watersheds worldwide due to climate change. Burned areas within watersheds increase soil erosion rates, which can increase the downstream accumulation of sediment in rivers and reservoirs. Using an ensemble of climate, fire, and erosion models, we show that post-fire sedimentation is…

Increasing trends in high severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984-2013

In the last three decades nearly 5 million hectares have burned in all vegetation types in the Southwest and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. However, trends in severity, or how fires are burning have not been well documented in forest and woodland ecosystems in the Southwest. We quantified trends in high severity fire in seven different forest and…

Meeting the JFSP data availability requirement

Meeting the JFSP grant requirement for post-research data accessibility requires some planning. This webinar will review the two paths for satisfying the data requirement, discuss in detail what is needed for publishing research data through the Forest Service Research Data Archive, and provide tips for making those submissions as smooth as possible. …

Home Ignition Zone

The Firewise virtual workshop series provides conference quality, free learning opportunities for wildfire stakeholders, by connecting them with leading researchers and practitioners in a live interactive format. Each session is an hour-long and features a wildfire related topic that closes with questions received directly from participants.

Western Regional Extension Forestry Meeting

Time pressures and distance make collaboration and coordination between extension foresters from different states challenging. The objective of this meeting is to bring together extension professionals in forestry and related disciplines from the western region and offer a comfortable, low pressure venue for sharing program ideas and potential directions for future collaboration. We hope that…

Integrated Rangeland Fire Strategy

You are cordially invited to the August 3rd Joint WRP Natural Resources and Military Readiness, Homeland Security, Disaster Preparedness and Aviation Committee’s webinar on Integrated Rangeland Fire Strategy (Implementation of DOI Secretarial Order 3336). 

This webinar will run from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Pacific.

DOI Secretarial Order 3336 was signed by Secretary Jewell on…

Job Opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Ecologist/Forester

Fire Ecology Research with the USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station, Resource Monitoring & Assessment Program - Corvallis or Portland, OR

Candidates will be evaluated based on their response to this Outreach notice. Please respond by August 15, 2016 and provide all of the necessary information to be considered for…

Power of Embers

Ask an expert virtual workshop series

Steve Quarles, PH.D., IBHS Research Center 

Learn about the impacts embers are capable of and the little things around the home that are vulnerable. Quarles will share some information on why and how IBHS is doing wildfire ember research at the lab in South Carolina.

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Land use planning to reduce wildfire risk: Lessons from 5 western cities

Presented by Dr. Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics

In the American West, wildfire risk to life and property is accelerating as a result of development trends favoring the region’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Moreover, extended droughts, unseasonably warm temperatures, and other climate-induced impacts are influencing the frequency and size of wildfires. In response, a number of…

Development of a Micro-UAV for Prescribed Fire Ignition

The use of helicopter-based ignition has helped to increase the number of prescribed fire acres but the expense and complexity of air operations makes aerial ignitions inaccessible to many land managers. The NIMBUS Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed an Unmanned Aerial System for Firefighting (UAS-FF) to precisely drop delayed ignition spheres in a manner similar to…