Past Events

Demystifying LANDFIRE's Biophysical Settings Descriptions and Models

BpS descriptions are being reviewed now and for the next few months because vegetation changes and new science opens up missed opportunities and provides more accurate information. There are corrections to be made to the original descriptions, delivery methods are getting better, and modeling software is continually improving.

If you're interested in vegetation history and need tools to…

Starker Lecture Series - Legacy of Fire: The Story of the Tillamook Burn

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Burning Questions: Forest, Fires & People

Over the past several years, there has been an increase in the number and severity of wildfires in Oregon.  This trend is expected to continue as the Pacific Northwest become increasingly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate including, decreased snowpack, higher temperatures and drought, and declining…

Fuel management effects on wild bird communities in California chaparral: How mastication is changing populations and may be increasing Lyme Disease

California chaparral is a hugely diverse plant community with many endemic species. Because of its fire activity and fire-proneness, chaparral is often removed from areas where people live in order to risk to lives and property. Beyond the direct consequences to wildlife of this vegetation removal, little is known about how wildlife species respond to different management techniques.…

Smoke from a Distant Fire: Human-Wildfire Interactions in Prehistoric Forests of the Southwestern US

The southwest Jemez Mountains in central New Mexico have been utilized continuously for the past 2,000 years, and by circa 1300 CE a network of large village sites and fieldhouses created a significant human footprint on this fire-prone landscape. Prehistoric land use significantly influenced forest structure, fuel properties, ignitions, and thus landscape fire…

Adapting to Climate Change in the Western National Forests

Sagebrush Seed Processing and Seedling Production for Restoration Plantings on Public Lands in the Great Basin

The Lucky Peak Nursery, managed by the USDA Forest Service in Boise, ID, has been producing dryland shrubs for almost sixty years for restoration plantings on public lands throughout the Great Basin. The clients provide the seed for the production of the one-year seedlings. Typically the seed is sown in the production fields or greenhouses in early spring,…

BpS Review: What is it? How does it work? Why does it matter?

All ecosystems are dynamic, changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Modeling large landscapes in the United States requires the collective knowledge of experienced and knowledgeable vegetation and fire experts. In collaboration with hundreds of colleagues, LANDFIRE produced more than 1,000 state-and-transitions models and descriptions — one for every ecosystem (called Biophysical…

Climate Change Adaptation - From Concept to Standard Practice

Management applications of the LANDFIRE BPS models in the California National Forests

State and transition (S&T) models are aspatial, nonequilibrium simulations that incorporate multiple ecosystem states linked by pathways representing deterministic (e.g., growth) and probabilistic (e.g., disturbance) transitions. The LANDFIRE program incentivized a major expansion in the use of S&T simulations in federal lands management, through the…

Behave Plus 5.0.5 Training Online

This training, offered by the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and taught by Ray Guse (Smoked Goose Consulting), will be held as a series of interactive webinars; a fourth session will be added if needed.
Sessions will start at noon Pacific / 1:00 Mountain / 2:00 Central / 3:00 Eastern. 
Registration will close at 50 participants or December 9…