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| Research Brief | NWFSC Research Brief #21 - Understanding climate and human impacts on historical fire regimes in the PNW Year 2019 |
| Research Brief | NWFSC Research Brief #20 - Covering Wildfires: Media Emphasis and Silence Year 2019 In this study, researchers examined print media coverage, data of burned homes, and demographic data of towns impacted by two major wildfires in Washington State. The Carlton Complex burned over 250,000 acres and hundreds of homes in the Methow Valley in 2014, becoming the largest wildfire in Washington’s history. In 2015, the fires that made up the Okanogan Complex burned over 300,000 acres… |
| Research Brief | NWFSC Research Brief #19 - Adjusting the lenses of past, present and future to bring into focus the role of frequent fire in dry forests Year 2019 In this study, the authors characterized historical fire return intervals, seasonality, and relationships with local and regional factors for 13 sites representative of southwestern Oregon dry forests on ridges and midslopes in the Rogue Basin of the Klamath Ecoregion. They used dendrochronology (cross-dated fire-scars from trees) to develop fire histories. Then using a systematic literature… |
| Synthesis | Social Vulnerability and Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface Year 2019 People living in the Pacific Northwest confrontrisks associated with environmental hazards such as wildfire. Vulnerability to wildfire hazard is commonly recognized as being spatially distributed according to geographic conditions that collectively determine the probability of exposure. For example, exposure to wildfire hazard is higher for people living in rural, forested settings than in a… |
| Archived Webinar | Prescribed fire policy barriers: Findings from a JFSP project on challenges and strategies on federal lands across the West Date Published Courtney Schultz, Associate Professor of Forest and Natural Resource Policy and Director of the Public Lands Policy Group in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University and Heidi Huber-Stearns, Associate Director of the Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon presented on "Prescribed fire policy barriers: Findings from a JFSP project on challenges… |
| Archived Webinar | Evaluation of burn mosaics on subsequent wildfire behavior, severity and fire management strategies Date Published Susan Prichard, research scientist at the University of WA; Nick Povak, ORISE postdoctoral fellow with USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station; and Paul Hessburg, research landscape ecologist with USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station presented on "Evaluation of burn mosaics on subsequent wildfire behavior, severity and fire management strategies." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. |
| Video | Restoration in a Fire Forest: The Benefits of Burning Date Published Wildfire has historically played an important role in the health and structure of Oregon's dry forests. Prescribed fire is a valuable tool used to restore forest health, increase firefighter safety, and better protect nearby human resources in these fire-adapted landscapes. |
| Archived Webinar | Humans modulate fire regimes, forest characteristics, and fire-climate relationships in California Montane Forests Date Published Alan is a Professor of Geography and Ecology at Penn State and Associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. His research during the last 25 years has focused on the effects and interactions of fire disturbance, climate, and people on forest dynamics at various time scales, and on the influence of understory plants on tree regeneration. Alan… |
| Archived Webinar | BehavePlus updates and changes Date Published BehavePlus continues to be one of the most widely used fire behavior modeling systems in the U.S. |
| Archived Webinar | An outlook for the 2018 fire season in Oregon and Washington Date Published Josh Clark, meteorologist for the Washington DNR, presented on "An outlook for the 2018 fire season in Oregon and Washington." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. |
| Archived Webinar | Scaling up Collaborative Restoration: What can be learned from participatory landscape simulation modeling? Date Published Tom Spies, Senior Scientist and Research Forester with the Pacific Northwest Research Station and Emily Jane Davis, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist with the College of Forestry, Oregon State University presented "Scaling up Collaborative Restoration: What can be learned from participatory landscape simulation modeling?" Watch the video on our YouTube channel. |
| Archived Webinar | Smoke Tools and Information for Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Date Published Susan M. O’Neill, Air Quality Scientist with the USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station, presented "Smoke Tools and Information for Prescribed Fire and Wildfire." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. |
| Archived Webinar | Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in the Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon Date Published Brooke Cassell, research assistant at Portland State University, presented "Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in the Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. Want more information? Read the brief here! |
| Archived Webinar | Lessons from the Milli Fire Date Published The Presenters shared 'Lessons from the Milli Fire.' |
| Archived Webinar | Fire Management of American Indian Basket Weaving Plants in the Pacific Northwest Date Published Georgia Fredeluces and Tony Marks-Block both recipients of the Joint Fire Science Program''s Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) grant presented 'Fire Management of American Indian Basket Weaving Plants in the Pacific Northwest' |
| Fire Facts | NWFSC Fire Facts: What are? Measures of Fire Behavior Year 2018 There are four main parameters used by fire managers to describe fire behavior. Read more at Fire Facts: What are? Measures of Fire Behavior |
| Research Brief | NWFSC Research Brief #18 - Burning for Butterflies: Identifying Weather and Fuel Conditions that Protect and Promote Butterfly Habitat Year 2018 In this study, researchers measured vegetation structure and fuel moisture (pre-burn), weather conditions, belowground heat dosages, and peak temperatures (during the burn), and burn severities and unburned refugia (post-burn) for paired morning and afternoon prescribed burns at each of ten prairie sites throughout the south Puget Sound in 2014. |
| Research Brief | NWFSC Research Brief #17 - Ecological Reference Conditions: Perspectives in Collaborative Restoration of Dry Forest Landscapes Year 2018 This study examined stakeholder perspectives on reference conditions among collaboratives engaged in the restoration of dry, fire-adapted forest landscapes managed by the U.S. Forest Service. In particular, the authors examined social perspectives that influenced the determination of ecological reference conditions. They interviewed stakeholders associated with six collaborative groups from… |
| Archived Webinar | A Climate Change Assessment of Vegetation, Fire, and Ecosystem Services for Tribal lands in the PNW Date Published Dr. Michael Case, Research Scientist with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington presented, A Climate Change Assessment of Vegetation, Fire, and Ecosystem Services for Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest. |
| Archived Webinar | Rangeland Fire Protection Associations in Oregon and Idaho: Implications for Fire Adaptation and Agency-Community Relationships Date Published Jesse Abrams, Research Associate with Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon and Dr. Emily Jane Davis, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist with Oregon State University presented, Rangeland Fire Protection Associations in Oregon and Idaho: Implications for Fire Adaptation and Agency-Community Relationships. |