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Southeast Prescribed Fire Training Survey Report
After many months of analyzing the responses from the 955 participants of the SE Prescribed Fire Training Needs Survey,the final report of findings and recommendations is now available. In addition to the full final report, a one-page briefing paper was produced which provides an overview of information in the final report. Please share this report as needed and consider your relationship with prescribed fire training, the recommendations provided, and how you can work to implement the recommendations or help others to do so.
Continue ReadingBIA Funding Announcement: Tribal Organization Support for Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons
The BIA Tribal Climate Resilience Program is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support the hiring of Tribal Climate Resilience Liaisons in the North Central, Midwest and Northeast/Southeast regions of the DOI Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) through the BIA’s Tribal Resilience Program (Program). Eligible applicants include tribal non-profit, non-governmental organizations and tribally-controlled colleges or universities (TCUs) that serve federally-recognized tribes. Other entities may participate as sub-grantees. The solicitation is available on grants.gov, and named TCRP-16241: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336222
The BIA is collaborating with the Department of Interior (DOI) Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) to continue supporting tribal climate resilience needs and selected tribal organizations will enter into cooperative agreements with the BIA. This provides a mechanism for the BIA to provide the selected Tribal organizations with non-recurring funding for mutually agreed upon tasks in keeping with the climate science needs of the BIA and all tribal communities in the North Central, Midwest, and Northeast/Southeast CASC regions (learn more and see map of DOI CASCs here: https://www.usgs.gov/ecosystems/climate-adaptation-science-centers). Applications are due December 17, 2021.
Continue ReadingJob: Fire Learning Network Manager, The Nature Conservancy
The Fire Learning Network Manager will be a member of the North America Fire team which leads the North America Region’s Living with Fire priority strategy and administers the Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together Phase III: Collaborative Engagement, Collective Action and Co-ownership of Fire (PERFACT III) Cooperative Agreement between TNC, USDA Forest Service and the Department of Interior agencies. This agreement supports four national learning networks – the Fire Learning Network (FLN), the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (IPBN), and a Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) Coaches Network – as well as other training, capacity-building and targeted implementation work. These networks and strategies invest in people and place-based efforts in 37 U.S. states, including 2,100 partners from over 100 organizations and 13 countries.
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Recording Available: The Jones Center Facebook Live on Land Management After Hurricane Michael
Tribal Climate Listening Sessions
The Department of the Interior (DOI) is pleased to announce three upcoming virtual listening sessions focused on climate change and Tribal Nations. The Department would like to ensure that the efforts and initiatives it develops to meet these priorities are shaped and designed based on feedback and information from across Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages. These listening sessions will inform DOI-wide and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-led efforts.
More information and session dates and times can be found here.
Continue ReadingUpcoming SFE Webinar: Exploring Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes with Examples from the Southeast
SFE Webinar: Exploring Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes with Examples from the Southeast
Date: November 17, 2021 at 1:00pm-2:00pm ET
Webinar Registration Link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MnVeZNiVTOSAn3NmA1gJuA
Description: Land managers often incorporate ecological principles into their planned fire regimes. One ecological principle that may affect the conservation outcome of prescribed fires is that ecological interactions are often spatial scale-dependent. While this principle is well researched in ecology, our review of the fire ecology literature indicated it is rarely studied in this context. Moreover, we analyzed trends in the size of prescribed fires over the past few decades to reveal that they tend to be larger than unsuppressed lightning ignited fires. We don’t know for sure if or how mismatches in the spatial scale of fire may impact wildlife and plants but we used previous literature from the southeastern United States to highlight some important interactions that may be fire spatial-scale dependent. Our series of analyses indicates that additional research focused on understanding spatial scale dependent patterns are needed to inform management which often occurs at larger scales than the research informing it.
Speaker: David Mason, PhD Student, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
Webinar Partners: The Southern Fire Exchange, NC State University, and the University of Florida.
Webinar Target Audience: Natural Resource Managers, Park Rangers, Researchers, Public Information Officers, Outreach Specialists, Cooperative Extension Agents
Continue ReadingFueling Collaboration Season 2
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. We’re working to bring people together to discuss, explore, and address the latest fire science and fire management issues across the eastern United States. The currently schedule discussions are:
- November 18 Fire and the Carbon Cycle
- December 16 Fire and Timber Management in Mixed Woods
- January 20 Smoke is NOT Just Smoke
- February 17 Fire and the Wildland Urban Interface in the Eastern US
- March 17 Thinking Beyond Fuel Reduction
Register for the sessions here.
Continue ReadingNew North Carolina Fire and Air Quality Tools
North Carolina has released two new tools related to fire management and air quality:
The North Carolina Forest Service Wildfire Public Viewer
North Carolina Climate Office Ambient Air Information Reporter
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