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October 2020
National Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy Interactive Online Event
Presented by International Association of Wildland Fire in partnership with the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) and its Western, Southeastern and Northeastern Regional Strategy Committees, this event will provide leaders intent around the Cohesive Strategy moving forward and context for 2020 implementation to date. Speakers will include USDA Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, DOI Office of Wildland Fire Director Jeff Rupert, and Washington State Forester George Geissler. Registration is free and those attending can submit topics and questions of interest…
Find out more »Partner Webinar: The Pyrocene: How Humanity Created a Fire Age
Acclaimed fire historian and author Dr. Stephen J. Pyne will deliver the Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History on October 28, 2020, online. Registration is required. In his talk “The Pyrocene: How Humanity Created a Fire Age,” Dr. Pyne will be discussing how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. Register here.
Find out more »Partner Webinar: How Both Short and Long Term Wildlife Research can Inform Management
Speaker Info Lora L. Smith, PhD The Jones Center at Ichauway Scientist lora.smith@jonesctr.org In this webinar, Dr. Smith will discuss management implications of a follow up survey of the alligator snapping turtle population on the Flint River, 22 years after eliminating harvest, the success of a forest restoration project in the eyes of pine snakes, and the unexpected added value of surveys of one threatened species (the gopher tortoise) for the conservation of another (the gopher frog). No registration required.…
Find out more »November 2020
Partner Webinar: Longleaf Topics for NRCS Professionals in South Carolina: Fire & Wildlife
This webinar is offered as part of a training partnership between The Longleaf Alliance (LLA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Lecture 1: "Introducing Fire to Young Longleaf Stands" Lecture 2: "Wildlife in the Longleaf Ecosystem" The first presentation, titled "Introducing Fire to Young Longleaf Stands" will familiarize viewers with the fire ecology of longleaf pine and the benefits of prescribed use of fire in young longleaf stands. Firing techniques, burn unit preparation and planning principles will also be introduced,…
Find out more »SFE Webinar: The Importance of Management for Stabilizing Long-term Carbon Under Extreme Fire Weather
Host: US Forest Service Southern Research Station, the Southern Fire Exchange and the University of Florida. Presenter: Louise Loudermilk, Ph.D., US Forest Service Southern Research Station Abstract: Hardwood-cypress swamps, or ephemeral wetlands, that typically burned less frequently form a spatial matrix with their more frequently burned neighbors, pine flatwoods, causing unique patterns of low to high intensity fires, variation in smoke emissions and overall ecosystem carbon stores in these southeastern forests. At the Osceola National Forest in Florida, our group…
Find out more »Partner Webinar: How Both Short and Long Term Wildlife Research can Inform Management
Long term research plays an invaluable role in informing natural resource management, particularly for long-lived wildlife species. However, short term and even opportunistic research can also yield important and sometimes surprising results relevant to management. In this webinar, Dr. Smith will discuss management implications of a follow up survey of the alligator snapping turtle population on the Flint River, 22 years after eliminating harvest, the success of a forest restoration project in the eyes of pine snakes, and the unexpected…
Find out more »Partner Webinar: Know Your Smoke
In this webinar, RMRS research physical scientist Shawn Urbanski and fire ecologist Duncan Lutes will discuss the current state of the science on wildland fire smoke emissions, including pollutants present in smoke, methods for quantifying emission flux, existing datasets, tools, and models, and deficiencies in current scientific understanding. This webinar is part of our Science You Can Use series of land-management focused webinars. The sessions are half presentation, half discussion and Q&A. Join the webinar here.
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