Southern Fire Exchange

USFS ScienceX Webinar - Fire History and Fire Ecology
2023-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
February 27 – March 3, 2023 1:00pm – 2:00pm ETStarting on February 27th and running through March 3rd, the USDA Forest Service Research and Development SCIENCEx webinar series will bring together scientists and land management experts to explore the latest in fire science. Registration is required. Individual program speakers and information provided below. For more information, visit the SCIENCEx webinar page
Monday, February 27 Fire history and fire ecologyIntroduction to SCIENCEx Fire Week, brief overview | Jens StevensIndigenous fire stewardship and cultural burning | Frank LakeFire exclusion and western forest change | Eric KnappA history of fire in the eastern US: How humans modified fire regimes through the Holocene | Dan Dey

SFE Webinar: Prescribed Burning with Research and Training Objectives
2023-02-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
SFE WEBINAR: BURNING WITH RESEARCH AND TRAINING OBJECTIVES
FEB. 23RD @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
A free one-hour webinar from The Nature Conservancy in Florida, the Southern Fire Exchange, and the University of Florida.
Society of American Foresters CFE Credit Expected.
Presenter: Andy Rappe, Preserve Management Director, The Nature Conservancy in Florida
Webinar Description: For fire practitioners, a disconnect often exists with between research, training and controlled burn objectives. Too often, researchers are viewed at best as “curious non-producers” and at worst a liability that compromises safety and operational tempo. Likewise, trainees are often tightly controlled under multiple layers of overhead, which limits learning opportunities. The intent of this talk is to demonstrate how research and training can have a positive effect – and even serve as the catalyst for a successful fire program. Following the presentation there will be time for audience Q/A with the speaker.
Registration Link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ywyLgZqTqWDhx2l4NA1uQ
Webinar Partners: University of Florida, The Nature Conservancy in Florida, and the Southern Fire Exchange.
Webinar Target Audience: Prescribed Fire Managers, Land Managers, Researchers, Scientists, Graduate Students

Fueling Collaboration Webinar: Prescribed Fire in the Eastern WUI
2023-02-16 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
Fueling Collaboration 3.0: Prescribed Burning in the Eastern WUI

February 16, 2023, 11:00AM – 12:30PM Eastern Time More and more natural resource managers in the eastern US are looking to use prescribed fire to reduce wildfire risk and manage ecosystems located in the WUI. Using prescribed fire in urban and suburban locations brings unique, intimidating challenges that can add to the complexity of a burn. In this panel discussion, we’ll highlight success stories, common themes, and lessons learned from prescribed fire programs in the WUI. This panel discussion counts for 1.5 Category 1 CFE’s by the Society of American Foresters. Register for the webinar here: https://www.fuelingcollab.com/register
Check out the entire Fueling Collaboration series

SFE and SERPPAS Webinar: Understanding Successful Prescribed Fire MOU Agreements
2023-02-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
SFE & SERPPAS WEBINAR: UNDERSTANDING SUCCESSFUL PRESCRIBED FIRE MOU AGREEMENTS
FEB. 9TH @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
A free one-hour webinar from the University of Florida, SERPPAS, and the Southern Fire Exchange.
Society of American Foresters CFE Credit Expected.
Presenters:
Tyler Carney, Doctoral Candidate, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida
Shan Cammack, Fire Management Officer, Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources
Webinar Description: This webinar will discuss the applications, benefits, and major components of memorandums of understanding (MOU) and other formal agreements developed to support organization-level prescribed fire programs. By examining these agreements through a collective action approach, it can be seen how these agreements may be used to increase acreage burned and overcome potential bureaucratic and economic barriers to implementing prescribed fire. The second part of the webinar will include a presentation and discussion by Shan Cammack about the Georgia DNR Interagency Burn Team MOU. The IBT MOU has been credited with increasing prescribed fire use in Georgia. Following the presentations there will be time for audience Q/A with the speakers. Check out the related research publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100676
Registration Link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d_7ZXqabR4iRTIJyaDoRqw
Webinar Partners: University of Florida, Southeastern Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) and the Southern Fire Exchange.
Webinar Target Audience: Prescribed Fire Managers

UC Davis Wildfire Resilient Structures Conference and Tradeshow
2023-02-07 08:00 - 2023-02-10 17:00 (America/New_York)
The UC Davis WiReS Conference will shape the future; bringing greater attention to long-term and short-term solutions for improving wildfire resilience of buildings worldwide. Wildfires are an ever-present and increasing threat to the well-being of the world population, infrastructure and economy, particularly in the U.S. Western states. WiReS will focus on how we can better prepare and respond to this formidable challenge.
This inaugural conference is being organized by the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center and the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center. Are you interested in getting involved as a volunteer? Please contact the Conference Manager, Olivia Schlanger, at oschlanger@ucdavis.edu.

Partner Event: Flatwoods Fire and Nature Festival
2023-01-28 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Austin Cary Forest, 10625 NE Waldo Rd, Gainesville, FL, 32609, United States
Location: Austin Cary Forest 10625 NE Waldo Rd, Gainesville, FL. Website
Hosted by the University of Florida IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
Join us for a celebration of Florida’s forests and the role of fire in maintaining and enhancing their beauty, diversity, and habitat value. Visit demonstration and activity stations hosted by the University of Florida, Tall Timbers Research Station, Southern Fire Exchange, Florida Forest Service, and many others! Take wagon tours of a fire managed forest and watch a live prescribed fire demonstration.
Activities include:

Educational exhibits and activities
Live animals
Prescribed burn demonstrations
Visit from Burner Bob, the bobwhite quail
Food trucks, live music, and more!

*No dogs allowed unless required as a service animal.
More info on the event Facebook page.

SFE Reddit AMA with Dr. Monica Rother on Fire Ecology and Fire History from Tree Rings
2023-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
🔥 SFE-Hosted Reddit AMA 🔥
On Wednesday, January 25th, from 12:00-1:00 pm ET, The Southern Fire Exchange will be hosting our second Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit!
Dr. Monica Rother, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will be live on Reddit’s “I Am A” page answering questions about fire ecology and fire history from tree rings.
Join us between 12:00 – 1:00pm ET on January 25th to ask Dr. Rother any questions you may have on fire history or ecology -> https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/

Partner Event: Remote Sensing of Burned Area Symposium
2023-01-25 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Remote Sensing of Burned Area Symposium
January 25, 2023 11:30 – 1:00 PM ET
Hosted by Tall Timbers Research Station and the US Geological Survey
In-person and Virtual
Tall Timbers Research Station
E.V. Komarek Science Education Center
13093 Henry Beadel Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32312
Email RSVP to register for either the in-person or virtual option:
Joe Noble (jnoble@talltimbers.org) or Kevin Robertson (krobertson@talltimbers.org)
Symposium Agenda
11:30-11:40 Introduction and overview of the SE FireMap online fire inventory product. Joe Noble, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL
11:40-12:00 Mapping burned areas from Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. Todd Hawbaker, USGS Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO
12:00-12:20 Contemporary (1984-2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States. Melanie Vanderhoof, USGS Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO
12:20-12:40 Determination of burn severity models ranging from regional to national scales for the conterminous United States. Josh Picotte, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD
12:40-1:00 Patterns of burning across the landscape using SE FireMap. Holly Nowell, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL
Download the Tall Timbers USGS Symposium agenda and speaker bios (pdf)

Partner Webinar: The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System version 5.4
2023-01-18 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
EPA Tools & Resources Webinar:
The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System (version 5.4)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
3-4 pm ET
The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System is EPA’s premier modeling system for studying air pollution from global to local scales. For nearly a quarter century, EPA, states and tribes have used CMAQ to support air quality management. CMAQ is continually updated to incorporate new knowledge on the state-of-the science to provide a powerful computational tool for translating fundamental atmospheric science principles to policy scenarios. In October 2022, CMAQ version 5.4 (CMAQv5.4) was publicly released. CMAQv5.4 introduces the Community Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Multiphase Model (CRACMM), an innovative new approach to describe atmospheric chemistry. Other new features include an improved model for aerosol dry deposition and expanded options for modeling biogenic emissions. These advances target better representation of key environmental conditions important for polluted areas of the United States. CMAQv5.4 also offers improved efficiency and accuracy of CMAQ model extensions for calculating source attribution and sensitivity analyses, as well as updates to multiple diagnostic, visualization, and analysis tools for probing and evaluating model estimates. This presentation will provide an overview of the CMAQ modeling system and detail some of the major updates in the latest version of the model. More information and registration

Partner Event: Fire Across Grasslands Panel Discussion
2023-01-11 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Fire Across the Grasslands – What Are We Managing For?
Grasslands in the Great Plains and Midwest are at constant risk from invasion by woody species. Conversion to deciduous woodlands and forests is already widespread in the Midwest and the southern Great Plains. This discussion focuses on the many ways that fire is essential to grasslands and the people who live there. Panel members will address:

the role of fire in resisting invasion by woody species;
managing reconstructed prairies;
promoting diverse plant communities and healthy wildlife populations; and
relevance to people from ranching communities to urban areas.

Panelists include:

Pauline Drobney – Prairie and Savanna Zone Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (retired)
Dwayne Elmore – Professor, Wildlife Extension Specialist, and Bollenbach Chair in Wildlife Biology in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University
Matthew Garrett – Natural Resource Manager, Johnson County Park & Recreation District, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Doug Spencer – State Grazing Specialist – Kansas, Natural Resource Conservation Service
Amy Symstad – Research Ecologist and Chief of the Climate and Land-use Branch for the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

The sessions are hosted by the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange. They are facilitating these conversations to improve information flows and help connect people to colleagues and relevant experts outside of their usual circles.
Register here

2022 Central Florida Prescribed Fire Council Hybrid Annual Meeting
2022-12-16 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Osceola Heritage Park, 1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee, FL, 34744, United States
The 2022 Central Florida Prescribed Fire Council Meeting
will be held Friday, December 16, 2022

This year the Central Florida Prescribed Fire Council will offer a hybrid meeting format held in person at the Osceola Heritage Park and virtually on Zoom to accommodate folks able to join in person as well as those who prefer to join virtually. The virtual meeting option is co-hosted with the Southern Fire Exchange. Both in-person and virtual registration is free and open to all!
More information is available on the Central Florida Prescribed Fire Council website.
View the full meeting agenda here.

Partner Webinar: How States Can Better Budget for Wildfires
2022-12-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
Government officials and Pew experts will discuss key issues and findings from a new report
December 15, 2022 from 2:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
Hosted by: The PEW Charitable Trusts
On Thursday, Dec. 15, The Pew Charitable Trusts will host leaders from federal and state agencies to deliver perspectives on the growing burden of wildfires on state budgets. The expert panel will build on the key findings and recommendations from a forthcoming Pew study, “Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets.”
Wildfires in the United States have become more catastrophic and expensive in recent years, with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Forest Service nearly doubling their combined spending on wildfire management in the past decade. As more frequent and severe fires drive up public spending, policymakers at all levels of government are faced with decisions about how to pay for the diverse array of interventions required to deal with them.
During this event, practitioners from state forestry and budget agencies, as well as federal partners, will detail their experiences and provide insights on challenges and promising practices in addressing budgeting issues related to wildfire management.
For more information about this event, please contact Jimmy Einsiedler at jeinsiedler@pewtrusts.org.
Registration Required.

Fueling Collaboration 3.0: Fire and Water
2022-12-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
Hosted by the Fueling Collaboration 3.0 team of partners from the eastern US Fire Science Exchange Networks and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and Southern Research Station. Fueling Collaboration is a series of interactive panel discussions designed to connect fire managers and researchers. Each discussion will be built on questions from the registered attendees. The Fueling Collaboration 3.0 Team are working to bring people together to discuss, explore, and address the latest fire science and fire management issues across the eastern United States.More info here.
Fire and Water
Description: The changing climate is reshaping the balance of fire and water in eastern ecosystems. Drought alters soil structure and stability; combined with intense rainfall, this impacts hydrologic dynamics. This panel will explore the interconnections between fire, nutrient cycling, ecohydrology, and climate change.
Panel Moderated by: Stephanie Laseter, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
Panelists:
Steven Brantly, Ph.D., Joseph W. Jones Center at Ichauway
Kathy Hawes, MBA, Southeastern Partnership for Forests and Water
Randy Kolka, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station
James Vose, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
Registration is required. Register here.

Partner Webinar: USFS Wildland Fire Metareview
2022-12-08 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
Analyzing 10 Years of Firefighter Safety and Wellbeing: A Metareview

As part of the Forest Service’s quest to be a learning organization, it is important for all levels of the agency to learn as much as possible from accidents and incidents. In 2015, agency leadership directed the Forest Service Innovation and Organizational Learning team (IOL) to look across multiple years of incidents and accidents to see what lessons could be learned by taking a “meta” approach to systematically reviewing past events. Looking across multiple incidents allows themes to be detected in ways that single accidents don’t allow. The resulting effort, the Wildland Fire Metareview, 2007-2016, examined accidents and incidents, including fatality incidents, in the Forest Service over a ten-year period.

The team behind the metareview is hosting a webinar, “Forest Service: Wildland Fire Metareview Overview and Discussion,” on Tuesday, December 8 at 2:00 PM ET. Register here.

SFE Webinar: Strategic Burning with a Simple Prioritization Model
2022-12-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_spjT9CRuTciSj4QiFj7N1Q?fbclid=IwAR2yHrtCNOqC-kBPlWc571BwWKH8VdsQkrZD2jdwwfGshIXrotFMPFaGcec
SFE Webinar: Strategic Burning with a Simple Prioritization Model
Presented by Dr. Joe O’Brien, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
December 8, 2022 @ 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Free Registration Here: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_spjT9CRuTciSj4QiFj7N1Q?fbclid=IwAR2yHrtCNOqC-kBPlWc571BwWKH8VdsQkrZD2jdwwfGshIXrotFMPFaGcec
Webinar description:
Increasing the pace and scale of prescribed fire treatments safely while meeting often conflicting management objectives can seem impossible. However, success can be achieved with a relatively straightforward strategy that leverages spatial data and a consensus on fire management priorities among stakeholders. We will use a simple but effective burn prioritization model developed for Oconee National Forest to demonstrate the approach and discuss tradeoffs that must necessarily occur when new priorities emerge. The method resulted in the near doubling of prescribed fire treatment efficiency at the Oconee and the approach is based on science, is transparent, and flexible.
Following the presentations there will be time for audience Q/A with the speaker.

Hosted by the Southern Fire Exchange in partnership with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station and the University of Florida.

Society of American Foresters CFE Credit Expected.

South Florida Interagency Fire Management Council 2022 Meeting
2022-12-08 09:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Doyle Connor Building, 900 U.S. 27, Moore Haven, FL, 33471, United States
2022 South Florida Interagency Fire Management Council Annual Meeting
December 8, 2022
In person in Moore Haven, Florida
At the Doyle Conner Building
Click here for more information and registration details.
The South Florida Interagency Fire Management Council is comprised of local, state and federal wildland and prescribed fire managers and practitioners of South Florida. The purpose of the annual meeting is to discuss and share current fire management issues, practices and technical information to promote a safe utilization of fire management practices to achieve desirable environmental goals. This opportunity promotes the interagency working relationships and strengthens the cohesion of the South Florida fire community that makes this work possible.
This year the South Florida Interagency Fire Management Council Annual Meeting will be held at the Doyle Conner Building, 900 US-27, Moore Haven, FL 33471.
Attendance will provide education credit for Florida Certified Prescribed Burn Managers.
Coffee will be served, but please bring your own lunch.
Event updates and details are also available on the South Florida Interagency Fire Management Council Facebook Page.

Partner Webinar: Seasonal Burning Effects on Plant Communities in Florida
2022-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
When Burning Matters: Seasonal Effects on Plant Communities in Florida – Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 3-4pm ET
*Note: Rescheduled from a previous time. Correct date/time is Thursday, December 1st from 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET.*
Hosted by UF/IFAS Nature Knowledge
This month, Dr. Raelene Crandall, Fire Ecology Lab in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences at The University of Florida, will discuss the effects of burning during different seasons on plant populations and communities. Even if you are not a fire practitioner and just want to know why you occasionally see smoke, this program will provide general information about fire regimes in the southeast and highlight some benefits of using fire for land management and restoration.
Register here in advance to receive webinar link. See the attached flyer and feel free to distribute; this program is open to anyone at no cost, but pre-registration is required. Recordings of this program will be available online approximately 2 weeks after the webinar. Over 20 previous program recordings are currently available now.
The Nature Knowledge program hosts expert speakers to share current scientific knowledge on topics affecting nature in Florida, supported by UF/IFAS Natural Resources Extension and hosted by Shelly Johnson. This program provides continuing education for IFAS Extension personnel, volunteers, and program participants, college/university faculty and students from across Florida, natural resource professionals, and environmental educators.
Nature Knowledge_NOV2022 flyer

Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) Conference - copy
2022-11-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Town and Country Resort, 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, 92108

5th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop
2022-11-14 - 2022-11-18 | DoubleTree by Hilton, Asheville – Biltmore, 115 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC, 28803, United States
5th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop

Keeping Pace with Reality: Boldly Embracing the Challenges and Undertaking the Hard Work

November 14-18, 2022
View the event website here.

Fueling Collaboration 3.0: Talking About Fire
2022-11-10 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
Registration Required. Register here.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
From building firelines to researching fire trends over time, fire management and science require great communication to be successful. Our panel will share their experiences and tips on how to effectively talk about fire to gain support and build a collaborative network. We’ll address your questions about fire science communication and discuss best practices for defining objectives, connecting with your audience, and tools/resources that can help along the way.

Fueling Collaboration is a series of interactive panel discussions designed to connect fire managers and researchers. Each discussion will be built on questions from the registered attendees. The interagency project team is working to bring people together to discuss, explore, and address the latest fire science and management issues across the eastern United States.

Virginia Learn to Burn: Using Fire to Manage Your Land
2022-11-10 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Learn to Burn: Using Fire to Manage Your Land

Hosted by: the Virginia Prescribed Fire Council, Pulaski County Parks & Recreation, Virginia Forest Landowner Education, and New River-Highlands Resource Conservation & Development Area

November 10, 2022
Dublin, VA
9:00 – 5:00
Check-in begins at 8:30
$15 – includes lunch
This one-day workshop will outline benefits of using fire as a management tool on your property, where to go, and who to contact when you need assistance, and how burns are conducted safely and successfully. You will also have the chance to actively participate in a prescribed burn (weather permitting).

Target Audience: Private landowners who are interested in using prescribed burning to safely and effectively meet their woodland management goals.
Please direct any questions to Jennifer Gagnon (540-231-6391, jgagnon@vt.edu).
Webpage: Learn to Burn Workshops | Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program | Virginia Tech (vt.edu)
Online registration: Online Registration | Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program | Virginia Tech (vt.edu)
Flyer and mail-in registration: 2022RxFire.pdf (vt.edu)

Partner Webinar: Can restoration of of fire-dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick-borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?
2022-11-08 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online, United States
Can restoration of fire-dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick-borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?
November 8, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Hosted by the Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Science Consortium and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange
The Wildlife Society and The Society of American Foresters continuing education credits (1 hour Cat 1) anticipated.
Register here: https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuqoqT8pGdzK0DdqiqvRRblIf9w98lFQ
A unique Zoom Meeting link will be emailed to you. Enter the meeting room beginning at 12:45 pm (central time) on the day of the webinar.
Webinar abstract: Over the past century, fire suppression has facilitated broad ecological changes in the composition, structure, and function of fire-dependent landscapes throughout the eastern US, which are in decline. These changes have likely contributed mechanistically to the enhancement of habitat conditions that favor pathogen-carrying tick species, key wildlife hosts of ticks, and interactions that have fostered pathogen transmission among them and to humans. While the long-running paradigm for limiting human exposure to tick-borne diseases focuses responsibility on individual prevention, the continued expansion of medically important tick populations, increased incidence of tick-borne disease in humans, and emergence of novel tick-borne diseases highlights the need for additional approaches to stem this public health challenge. Another approach that has the potential to be a cost-effective and widely applied but that remains largely overlooked is the use of prescribed fire to ecologically restore degraded landscapes that favor ticks and pathogen transmission. We examine the ecological role of fire and its effects on ticks within the eastern United States, especially examining the life cycles of forest-dwelling ticks, shifts in regional-scale fire use over the past century, and the concept that frequent fire may have helped moderate tick populations and pathogen transmission prior to the so-called fire-suppression era that has characterized the past century. We explore mechanisms of how fire and ecological restoration can reduce ticks, the potential for incorporating the mechanisms into the broader strategy for managing ticks, and the challenges, limitations, and research needs of prescribed burning for tick reduction.

This webinar will include findings from the following publication: Gallagher, Michael R., Kreye, Jesse K., Machtinger, Erika T., Everland, Alexis, Schmidt, Nathaniel, and Skowronski, Nicholas S.. 2022. “ Can Restoration of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems Reduce Ticks and Tick-Borne Disease Prevalence in the Eastern United States?.” Ecological Applications 32( 7): e2637. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2637

SFE Webinar: UAS / Drones for Prescribed Fire Ignitions
2022-11-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
SFE Webinar: UAS for Prescribed Fire Ignitions

A free one hour webinar from Raven Environmental Services, the Southern Fire Exchange, and the University of Florida.
Society of American Foresters CFE Credit Expected.
Presenter:
Brett Lawrence, Project Manager – Drone and GIS Services, Raven Environmental Services
Webinar Description: This webinar will share how the incorporation of UAS aerial ignition into a private prescribed burning program impacted operations between 2019 and 2021. The speaker will share some insights into how using UAS changed burn planning and how it mitigated challenges relating to fire operations. The presentation will include the quantitative impacts of using the UAS, as well as case studies from some specific prescribed burns. Finally, the speaker will share limiting factors that they continue to encounter when using the UAS on burns. Following the presentations there will be time for audience Q/A with the speaker.

Register: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RxiMcLcOTOejQX9v-nO-gw

Partner Webinar: National Wildfire Resilience Public Opinion Research Briefing
2022-11-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual

14th Biennial ​Longleaf Conference
2022-10-25 08:00 - 2022-10-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wilmington, North Carolina, 301 North Water Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
14th Biennial Longleaf Conference
October 25-28, 2022
​Hotel Ballast, Wilmington, North Carolina
“The Biennial Longleaf Conference, sponsored by The Longleaf Alliance, is a regional conference that is focused on the restoration and conservation of the longleaf ecosystem that once dominated the landscape within the southeastern United States. The conference provides the opportunity for people from all over the southeast to get together, share, learn, and celebrate longleaf. It also serves as a rallying spot for several other organizations and government agencies seeking to stage additional events in order to better collaborate on the conference topics.”
“This conference is open to individuals, private landowners, land managers, wildlife biologists, conservation groups, consultants, university researchers, forestry professionals, agency and outreach personnel who share an interest in restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem. On average, attendance ranges from 250-400 depending on conference location. The conference also draws from 25-35 exhibitors and vendors.”
More information here.

North Florida Prescribed Fire Council Meeting
2022-10-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | UF/IFAS Jackson County Extension Office, 2741 Penn Ave. Suite 3, Marianna, FL, 32448, United States
Save the date for the 2022 North Florida Prescribed Fire Council Fall Meeting
Registration coming at a later date. The meeting will be held at the Jackson County UF/IFAS Extension Office.

Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management
2022-10-04 - 2022-10-07 | University of Florence Santa Apollonia Building, Via S. Gallo, 25, Florence, 50129, Italy
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) and Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) are partnering with Regione Toscana and University of Florence to host the Fire Ecology Across Boundaries conference in Florence, Italy October 4-7, 2022.
View the event website here.

Georgia Prescribed Fire Council Meeting
2022-09-29 | Tifton, GA, Tifton, GA, United States
The 2022 Georgia Prescribed Fire Council Annual Statewide Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 29th at the Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton, Georgia. Continuing Forestry Education credits and Master Timber Harvester credits will be available. Registration and more information.

Northeast-Midwest Regional Prescribed Fire Council Coordinating Group (NE-MW-RPFCCG) Virtual Networking Forum
2022-09-28 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Northeast-Midwest Regional Prescribed Fire Council Coordinating Group (NE-MW RPFCCG)
Virtual Networking Forum
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
1:00 to 2:30 PM EASTERN / 12:00 to 1:30 PM CENTRAL

Join this regional virtual meeting to learn about learn and burn events and prescribed fire communication resources. While this working group is based outside of the southeastern US, the two guest speakers come from North Carolina and Florida.
No registration is required
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Partner Webinar: Bladen Lakes Isolated Wetlands Restoration Workshop
2022-09-21 13:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Bladen Lakes Isolated Wetlands Restoration Workshop
Sept. 21, 2022
1:00 – 4:30 PM ET
Online (Sept. 21) and Optional In-Person (Sept. 22)
Note: This hybrid workshop consists of two parts, a webinar (Sep. 21, 2022) and a limited capacity (30 participants) field tour in the Bladen Lakes, NC region (Sep. 22, 2022). The field tour will visit Suggs Mill Pond game land, the Broadwell property, and Bladen Lakes State Forest. To register for the webinar please click on “Register Now”. To register to participate in the limited capacity (30 People) field tour email Julian Wilson, julian.wilson@ncagr.gov. Field tour participation will be capped at 30 participants on a first-come basis. A waiting list will be maintained.
Isolated wetlands are critically important to conserving ecosystem biodiversity in the Southeast. They provide many ecosystem services, to include improving water quality. They are a vital natural resource, important in maintaining biodiversity and essential for wetland-dependent wildlife. Participants in the webinar will learn about restoration of isolated webinars. Presenters will discuss priority amphibians, plants, and natural communities, and will review restoration needs and strategies, including the use of fire in wetlands.
Register for the webinar
Webinar Agenda

Welcome, introduction, and participant poll – Jeff Hall (NCWRC), Julian Wilson (NCFS)
Importance of Bladen Lakes region for wetland restoration – Jeff Marcus (TNC)
Splendid Isolation: The importance of isolated wetlands to herpetofauna in North Carolina– Jeff Beane (NCMNS)
Rare Plants of Isolated Wetlands in Southeastern NC – Katherine Culatta (NCPCP)
Isolated wetland natural communities– Mike Schafale (NCNHP)
Habitat degradation, restoration strategies, & examples from FL – Mike Sisson (NCWRC)
Examples of wetland restoration in NC – Jeff Humphries (NCWRC)
Fire and wetland management – Ken Shughart (NCWRC)
Round Robin overview of key conservation lands in region

Bladen Lakes State Forest – Hans Rohr (NCFS)
Bay Tree Lake/Jones Lake/Singletary Lake State Parks – Ed Corey (NCSP)
Suggs Mill Pond & Whitehall Game Lands – Ken Shughart
Key private lands (Broadwell/Bayfields) – Richard Broadwell

Overview of field trip logistics and objectives
Closing remarks
