Past Events
How to determine the most appropriate treatments before and after wildfire in sagebrush and piñon-juniper ecosystems
May 27, 2015 | WorkshopOverview: Rick Miller, Professor Emeritus of Range and Fire Ecology, OSU and Jennifer Moffitt, Soil Scientist, Prineville BLM will discuss tools to rapidly assess resilience to disturbance (ability of a treatment area to recover), resistance to invasive annuals, predict successional pathways, and determine the need and suitability for seeding on potential vegetation treatment areas and areas…
II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk
May 26 - 29, 2015 | ConferenceThe II International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk will be held in Alghero, Italy, from May 26th to 29th, 2015. The Conference aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of fires and their impacts.
The main objectives of the Conference are to:
- Advance knowledge on interactions, relationships, feedbacks…
Broadcast Premiere -The Sagebrush Sea
May 20, 2015 |The Sagebrush Sea makes its broadcast premiere May 20, on NATURE at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time/7:00 p.m. Central on PBS. (Check local listings.)
Vortices and Wildland Fire
May 20, 2015 | WebinarScott Goodrick, a research meteorologist with the USDA Forest Service, and Jason Forthofer, a mechanical engineer with the USDA Forest Service, will present a summary of vortices and wildland fire. Vortices are almost always present in the wildland fire environment and can sometimes interact with the fire in unpredictable ways, causing extreme fire behavior and safety concerns. In…
Seed Zones and Climate Change
May 20, 2015 | WebinarFrancis Kilkenny, Research Biologist, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, will discuss seed zones and climate change. This is the last webinar in our seeding webinar series for the season. Register here.
Drivers of Wildfire Suppression Costs
May 20, 2015 | WebinarPresented by: Cassandra Moseley, Director & Autumn Ellison, Research Assistant, Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Link to the webinar HERE
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May 19 - Northern California Chaparral Fire Hazard Summit
May 19, 2015 | WorkshopPlease join us to learn about fuel hazard reduction treatments and their relationship to fire hazards, chaparral ecology, birds, small mammals, & plant communities; tour a 10-year old fire/fire-surrogate study; and help build a decision support tool that focuses on these key questions: Should we treat or accept fuel hazard? If treatments occur, What treatment should be used?, and When…
Past, present, and future in the forests of California's Sierra Nevada: variability in forest response to environmental change, and the role of management in promoting ecosystem resilience
May 18, 2015 | WebinarDuring this Webinar, Dr. Safford will contrast the ecology and temporal trends (historical to current to projected future) of lower montane (oak woodland, yellow pine, mixed conifer) vs. upper montane (red fir) and subalpine forests in the Sierra Nevada, focusing on impacts of three classes of environmental stressors: climate change, wildfire, and invasive species. For a further description of…
SageSTEP six year update
May 14, 2015 | WebinarJim McIver, SageSTEP Coordinator and Senior Research Associate Professor at Oregon State University will discuss the latest SageSTEP projects results.
Register HERE
Central Oregon Ecological Fire Training Exchange
May 14 - 21, 2015 | WorkshopThis Northwest FLN TREX, aimed at prescribed fire partners in the state, will focus on the ecological, social, communications, monitoring and operational dimensions of planning and implementing ecologically-based prescribed fire for restoration goals. (The application deadline has passed.)