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This webinar is designed to help woodland owners, foresters and their tax advisors prepare for the filing of their 2014 federal tax returns. In addition to providing useful tax tips and covering the latest changes to tax law, the webinar will also cover these important issues: tax deductions, timber income reporting, 1099-S filing, basis, loss, and the filing of Form T.

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.

Webinar presenters will be: Serra Hoagland, Northern Arizona University and USFS Southern Research Station, and Frank Lake, Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Bruce Roundy, Plant Ecologist at Brigham Young University, will discuss vegetation restoration in response to piñon and juniper control treatments.

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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?  

Jeff Ott, Research Geneticist at the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, will discuss methods for large-scale restoration following fire in the Great Basin and will include discussion of aerial seeding and broadcast seeding using minimum-till drills as well as conventional drill seeding.

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Fire and climate history of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Integration of tree-ring and alluvial-sediment methods

Increased wildfire has been observed with the displacement of native cottonwood-willow (Salix and Populus spp.) gallery forests by invasive, non-native tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) in desert riparian zones of North America. Greater post-fire recovery of Tamarix relative to native species suggests a Tamarix fire trajectory where repeated fire excludes native riparian species.