Past Events

Forest and People: Investing in a Sustainable Future

Share your people-centred ideas, field experiences, cutting-edge research, development projects, practical applications and theoretical models at the world’s largest and most important gathering of the forest sector.

FAO is inviting abstracts on the central theme of the XIV World Forestry Congress, “Forests and People: Investing in a Sustainable Future”, and on relevant topics…

Climate change and fire in the Southwest

Global climate change will lead to shifts in climate patterns and fire regimes in the Southwest over coming decades. The intent of this webinar is to summarize the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change predictions in the Southwest as well as the pathways by which fire might be affected. While the paper is focused on the Southwest, in particular Arizona and New Mexico, some…

Challenges and opportunities with shrub restoration in the Great Basin: Climate adaptation and planting techniques

Shrubs are ecosystem foundation species in most of the Great Basin's landscapes. Most of the species, including sagebrush, are poorly adapted to the changes in fire and invasive pressures that are compounded by climate change. This presentation will give an overview of challenges and…

Marys River Watershed Council: Summer Forum

Wildfire and Watersheds: Water, Wildlife Habitat & Community Stewardship.

Habitat Exchange - A Market-Based Conservation Program for Greater Sage-Grouse

Habitat Exchange is a new conservation program being developed by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and its partners in several states. The purpose of the Habitat Exchange is to protect, restore, and conserve habitat value for a variety of species and ecosystems. Its goal is to provide financial and regulatory incentives and stimulate greater involvement of the private landowner community in…

The Burning Question: The Future of Wildland Fire Management

Tracking Progress through Collaborative Monitoring

Monitoring plays a prominent role in collaborative projects and can be used to strengthen communication and consensus among diverse groups. Monitoring allows collaborative projects to define their landscape management process and serves as a neutral approach to determining effectiveness. Learn key concepts of a monitoring framework and guiding principles for practical, efficient monitoring.…

Best Practices for Communication and Delivery of Prescribed Fire Messaging

The goal of the communications summit is to:

1. Understand the current state of prescribed burning in the Southeast on private lands,
2. Discuss the known impediments to burning on private lands and ways to overcome these obstacles,
3. Develop communication strategies and appropriate messaging for landowners and consultants, 
4. …

Prescribed Fire Opportunities

Joint Base Lewis McChord with the cooperation of CNLM and assistance of the WA Prescribed Fire council will be hosting several training opportunities for those interested in gaining further experience with firing and initial attack operations in grassland fuels.

Trainings are scheduled for July 15, August 19 and September 16.

For more information, click…

5th International Conference of Fire Effects on Soil Properties

We have the pleasure to announce the 5th International Conference of Fire Effects on Soil Properties.

The conference aims to:

• bring together worldwide fire and soil researchers
• contribute to scientific communication in the discipline

FESP⁵ has a special thematic session on combining computational methods and experimental data.…