A recent panel discussion (Social Aspects of Wildfire Crisis Work) hosted by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station covered a wide range of social science, communication, and fire-adapted communities concepts. While the conversation tended to have a Western U.S. theme, many of the discussion topics can be related to fire in the South. Social science and social aspects can be some of the most complicated, vexing, and challenging aspects of natural resource and wildland fire management. Check out the recording during your next lunch break! You’ll probably learn something.
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New Prescribed Fire Sign Templates
Can you or your organization use some FREE prescribed fire-themed signs designs? Are you looking for a sign template that can easily be adopted with organization logos or language?
The Southern Fire Exchange in partnership with a committee from the School of Forests, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences at the University of Florida IFAS recently developed a suite of customizable prescribed fire signs. Signs were developed with three different use scenarios in mind: roadside signs, property entrance signs, and trailside signs. These signs are available in PNG, EPS, and PSD formats so that graphic designers can further modify them for use by agencies, organizations, prescribed fire councils, prescribed burn associations, and landowners. The artwork is original and these graphics are free for non-commercial use.
Check out all of the sign designs and let us know ([email protected]) if you have any feedback!
Continue ReadingPartner Webinar: Communicating Air Quality During Fires: the Science Behind the AirNow Sensor Data Pilot
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) conducted the AirNow Sensor Data Pilot during the 2020 fire season to provide the public with air sensor information on the air pollutant, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), especially during smoke events from fires. The sensor data is shown on the Fire and Smoke Map, part of the popular AirNow.gov website.
The air sensors are among several new additions to the Fire and Smoke Map, made possible with innovative technical approaches developed and applied by EPA to compare sensor data with data from regulatory grade monitors and temporary monitors provided by EPA, USFS, states, tribes and local air quality agencies. This webinar will provide an overview of the AirNow Sensor Data Pilot and the development of the U.S.-wide correction equation for PurpleAir PM2.5 sensor data and its appropriateness for correcting PM2.5 measurements during smoke events.
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