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SFE Partner Webinar: Introducing the North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network

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Webinar: Introducing the North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network

When:              June 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00 pm central time

Presented by:    Dr. Ellis Margolis, Research Ecologist, USGS Fort Collins Science Center and Dr. Christopher Guiterman, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado at Boulder, and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Hosted by:        Joint Fire Science Program’s Fire Science Exchange Network

Register:           https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-qurDgjE9bW2ACpjzczxSc6LIqsZkr0

Abstract:           A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication* of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this publication, authors investigate the NAFSN in terms of geography, sample depth, vegetation, topography, climate, and human land use.

In this webinar presenters will present major findings from the publication, demonstrate data accessibility, highlight management applications, and discuss future steps planned for the NAFSN.

* Margolis, Q. E, Guiterman, C. H, …L. L. Yocom. in press. The North American tree-ring fire-scar network. Ecosphere.

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Virtual Workshop – From Flames to Forests: Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining Our Forests and Wildlife

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Virtual Workshop

From Flames to Forests: Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining Our Forests and Wildlife

Presented by the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

June 7, 2022
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET

From Flames to Forest: Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining our Forests and Wildlife

 

Registration link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/from-flames-to-forests

Continuing Education Credits (pending approval) Society of American Foresters, Wildlife Society, USDA-NRCS

 

Agenda
Tuesday, June 7th from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

11:00 AM – 11:10 AM: “Welcome and Introduction” Charlie Faires, Forester, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

11:10 AM – 11:35 AM: “Fire History Paradigms: What’s “Natural”?” Dr. Kevin Robertson, Fire Ecology Research Scientist, Tall Timbers Research Station

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM: “Forest and Fire Ecology: Understanding the Relationship Between Forests and Fire”  Dr. Heather Alexander, Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology, Auburn University

12:00 PM – 12:05: Break

12:05 PM – 12:30 PM: “Disturbance Dependent Wildlife: Fire as a Tool for Wildlife Management” Dr. Ben Jones, President and CEO, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

12:30 – 12:55 PM: “Managing Forests with Fire: Fire as a Silvicultural Tool” Dr. Tara Keyser, Research Forest and Director of the Center for Forest Restoration and Management, United States Forest Service

12:55 PM: Break

1:00 PM – 1:25 PM: “A Community of Practice: Implementing Prescribed Fire at Scale” Adam Warwick, Southern Blue Ridge and Fire Leaning Network Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy

1:25 PM: Panel Discussion with Lecturers

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Upcoming Partner Virtual Workshop: From Flames to Forests – Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining our Forests and Wildlife

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Our Southern Fire Exchange co-PI Dr. Kevin Robertson (Tall Timbers Research Station) is presenting at an upcoming virtual workshop hosted by the Ruffed Grouse Society, American Woodcock Society, Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn Association, and NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife.  Fire science, fire ecology, and wildlife management topics will be discussed.

“From Flames to Forests: Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining Our Forests and Wildlife“

Date: Tuesday, June 7th from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Registration link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/from-flames-to-forests

Continuing Education Credits (pending approval) Society of American Foresters, Wildlife Society, USDA-NRCS

Agenda

11:00 AM – 11:10 AM: Welcome and Introduction

Charlie Faires, Forester, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

11:10 AM – 11:35 AM: Fire History Paradigms: What’s “Natural”?

Dr. Kevin Robertson, Fire Ecology Research Scientist

Tall Timbers Research Station

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM: Forest and Fire Ecology: Understanding the Relationship Between Forests and Fire 

Dr. Heather Alexander, Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology, Auburn University

12:00 PM – 12:05: Break

12:05 PM – 12:30 PM: Disturbance Dependent Wildlife: Fire as a Tool for Wildlife Management

Dr. Ben Jones, President and CEO, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

12:30 – 12:55 PM: Managing Forests with Fire: Fire as a Silvicultural Tool

Dr. Tara Keyser, Research Forest and Director of the Center for Forest Restoration and Management, United States Forest Service

12:55 PM: Break

1:00 PM – 1:25 PM: A Community of Practice: Implementing Prescribed Fire at Scale

Adam Warwick, Southern Blue Ridge and Fire Learning Network Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy

1:25 PM: Panel Discussion with Lecturers

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New SFE Fact Sheet on Accessing Wildland Fire Research

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A new collaborative fire science fact sheet produced by the Southern Fire Exchange, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, and the University of Florida / IFAS, provides fire practitioners with timely resources for efficiently discovering and tracking new wildland fire science information. The six-page fact sheet includes a table of research databases and search engines for quickly finding publications. Download the full fact sheet.

Assessing Wildland Fire Research
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USFS Southern Research Station 2021 Research Highlights

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Southern Research Station science helps managers and landowners create, restore, and sustain healthy forests. Despite disturbances such as climate change, wildfire, invasive species, and insects and diseases, forests can be managed successfully for multiple objectives, as our research shows.

Read research highlights from SRS here.

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APA Releases Guidelines for Inclusive Language

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The APA has released a new document providing guidelines for inclusive language. These guidelines aim to raise awareness, guide learning, and support the use of culturally sensitive terms and phrases that center the voices and perspectives of those who are often marginalized or stereotyped. They also explain the origins for problematic terms and phrases and offer suitable alternatives or more contemporary replacements. The document will be flexible and iterative in nature, continuing to evolve as new terminology emerges or current language becomes obsolete.

Read the guide here.

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How Does Prescribed Fire Affect Soil?

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In the eastern U.S., a long absence of fire has shifted forests towards trees adapted to moist conditions, and away from fire-tolerant species that were historically dominant. Forest Service scientists are co-authors on a recent study to see how fire affects soils in pine barrens. The team found that repeated prescribed fire encourages drier soils that favor fire-tolerant trees. Additional management that clears other vegetation is also helpful.

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Partner Webinar: Comparing Air Quality and Public Health Impacts from Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Smoke

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Join us for a conversation about the recent release of the EPA Report on Comparing Air Quality and Public Health Impacts from Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Smoke. Jason Sacks, with the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be joining us for an overview of the studies that provided the information for this report aimed at helping federal, state, local and Tribal partners and fire organizations make risk management decisions to reduce the impacts of wildfire smoke in their communities.

Register here.

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Prescribed Burn Geodatabase for the Southeastern United States

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Tall Timbers Research Station is undertaking a project that aims to do the following:

1) Survey Southeastern states to understand their prescribed fire permitting systems.

2) Develop minimum attribution for geodatabase (specific to prescribed fire)

3) Create a geodatabase to include how permit location is tracked, what attributes are collected, spatial characteristics, period of record and data stewardship.

4) Generate a formal updating process for each state.

View a storymap about the project here.

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