Join us for a half day of shared learning for ALL stakeholders about the Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy and your role in our complex wildland fire system. The facilitated learning event will bring community and agency leaders together to share information and develop recommended actions for locally relevant wildland fire challenges in Crook County.
The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade.
Large wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western U.S. following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate. Given this increase there is great interest in whether fuels treatments and previous wildfire can alter fire severity patterns in large wildfires.
Most of us in the “wet” forests of western Oregon and Washington got our fill of smoke this past summer from an amazing year of wildfires. For many, the situation was a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. Join us for a webinar/discussion on the role of fire -- past, present and future -- in our backyard “rainforests” of the PNW.
Speakers:
Brett Holt and Tom Donnelly will be the presenters for this installment in the FEMA Region 10 Natural Hazards Mitigation Planning Coffee Break Webinar Series.
This webinar will highlight results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on fire management costs.
For millennia, many tribes across North America used fire to promote valued resources.
What will you learn?
Researchers from the USFS PNW Research Station and Case Research synthesized model projections of changes in vegetation and fire across tribal lands in the PNW. They will demonstrate how these changes will impact economically and culturally important ecosystem services and how this information can be used for adaptation planning.