Past Events

Managing Fire, Understanding Ourselves: Human Dimensions in Safety & Wildland Fire

This joint conferences offers a forum where past experience and lessons learned are documented, current work showcased, and emerging ideas/technology presented to provide a strong foundation that will facilitate setting a course to the future that addresses and responds to developing challenges locally, regionally, and globally.

Easy-To-Use Smoke Tools

Have you ever wanted to do more with smoke but figured learning the tools would take too long or the programs would be too difficult to run?  

Attend this webinar presented by Trent Wickman, Air Resource Specialist with the USFS-Great Lakes National Forests, and learn how easy the tools are to learn and use. Specific tools covering smoke from the planning phase of a project to day-…

April 16 - Thinning for fuels reduction & forest health

Is your forest or small woodland overgrown or packed with small trees?  Thinning out some of the smaller trees can improve the health and vigor of the remaining trees – and make your forest more fire-resistant too! 

Join us for a hands-on field session where we discuss the nuts and bolts of non-commercial thinning, including short and long term objectives, tree selection,…

Effects of climate variability & accelerated forest thinning on watershed-scale runoff

The recent mortality of up to 20% of forests and woodlands in the southwestern United States, along with declining stream flows and projected future water shortages, heightens the need to understand how management practices can enhance forest resilience and functioning under unprecedented scales of drought and wildfire. To address this challenge, a combination of mechanical thinning and fire…

Smoke Management Issues: 2015 and Beyond

This two day event includes a meeting regarding smoke management issues and a field tour to see the innovative restoration work being accomplished through the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project. There will be opportunities to hear guest speakers and ask and share questions regarding the challenges of conducting prescribed burning restoration work adjacent to communities.

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A new age of wildland fuel science

Wildland fuels may be the most important consideration in fire management, not just because they are important inputs for predicting fire behavior (i.e., how fast and intense a fire gets), but also because fuels are the only factor that can effectively be controlled by direct and indirect management manipulation.
In this webinar, Bob Keane, Research Ecologist with the Missoula Fire Sciences…

Using Prescribed Fire as a Management Strategy in the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Mike Rule, Wildlife Biologist, will be our host and take us on an interesting tour through the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Management strategies developed for Turnbull NWR call for the integration of a variety of techniques to restore natural stand conditions, reduce hazard fuels and improve wildlife habitat.

Please bring your own lunch.

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Climate & Weather Outlook for the 2015 Fire Season in the PNW

Presented by: John Saltenberger, Meteorologist
Predictive Services Program
Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, Portland OR

No pre-registration

Link to the webinar

WA DNR Forest Health Workshop

OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Washington State University Extension will host a forest health training workshop for natural resource professionals on April 8 in Glenwood.

This workshop will give foresters, loggers, restoration contractors, and other natural resource professionals an opportunity to interact with other workshop participants and…

April 3 - Burning for Birds: Birds, Fire and Southeastern Habitat Management

This webinar will help to underscore the tight interconnections between birds and fire and will focus on four key factors that fire practitioners vary when conducting burns: frequency, season, extent, and ignition pattern. Examples of the effects fires can have on birds associated with fire-dependent ecosystems found in…