UCCE and American Forests Launch Private-land Reforestation Opportunity Tool

Join us to explore a new tool developed by American Forests and the UC Cooperative Extension that supports post-fire reforestation planning across California’s private non-industrial forestlands (PNIFL). The application maps wildfire-impacted parcels and identifies reforestation and restoration opportunities statewide on PNIFL, highlights demographic and social factors, and overlays existing reforestation programs and workforce capacity. 

Behave7 has just been released!

In this webinar, we will discuss how Behave v7 differs from BehavePlus v6 by highlighting the Surface, Surface/Crown, Surface/Mortality, and Surface/Contain modules and enhancements that will be included in the next few releases in 2025-2026. This webinar will be useful for both burn bosses and RX-300 cadres.

This webinar will be most useful for both burn bosses and RX-300 cadres.

Presented by: Faith Ann Heinsch (RMRS Development Lead) and LaWen Hollingsworth (RMRS Fire Behavior Specialist)

Presented by Faith A. Heinsch and LaWen Hollingsworth

Behave7 has just been released!

In this webinar, we will discuss how Behave v7 differs from BehavePlus v6 by highlighting the Surface and Surface/Crown modules and enhancements that will be included in the next few releases in 2025-2026.

This webinar will be most useful for fire analysts, S-390 cadres, and S-490 cadres.

Presented by: Faith Ann Heinsch (RMRS Development Lead) and LaWen Hollingsworth (RMRS Fire Behavior Specialist)

Join CFSC PI, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, for a continuation of the Fish and Fire conversation at the upcoming Fish and Fire 2025 Workshop, which will take place during the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference.

Get an introduction to fire line leadership skills, the tools to grow into a capable leader, and gain valuable tips and tricks from current PBA squad leaders. Then we’ll go out into the field to practice some essential squad leader skills.

Learn about fire behavior in our local vegetation types, fire line safety, and how to function as an effective burn crew member. This class is intended for PBA members with limited fire experience (0-3 Rx burns).

Given the increasing severity of wildfires and their associated impacts across the country, there is significant attention on the tools that are available to address these challenges. Recent research highlights that conservation and restoration of freshwater ecosystems may play an important, yet overlooked, role in wildfire management. This presentation will provide an introduction to the current scientific understanding of the nexus between freshwater ecosystems–including the role of beaver dam or beaver dam analog-created wetlands–and wildfire, opportunities for additional research, and how this information can be best used to enact policy change.

Seeking knowledgeable members of the fire community to oversee our edits.

CAL FIRE, Berkeley Forests, and the California Fire Science Consortium are sponsoring a morning workshop at the California Forest Science Symposium to highlight and discuss landscape-scale prescribed burning. This is an add-on workshop that is free and open to the public, though attendance will be limited.

The California Fire Science Seminar Series will return on February 4th, 2025. Join us every Tuesday through March 18th at 10 am PT for virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science topics from a range of topics and speakers.

The 2003 Canoe Fire burned through nearly 10,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, making it one of the largest fires to affect these iconic forests in recent history. While the fire had mostly low severity effects, some areas burned at moderate and high severity. Now, after 20 years of regrowth, some of the beneficial effects have dwindled, while overs have been maintained through prescribed fire and other management activities. Join the park managers and researchers that were involved in the suppression, management and monitoring efforts for a discussion about the Canoe Fire’s lasting effects, and the past and future of fire use in redwood forests. *Tour sites may require up to 1mi of hiking on uneven single track trails*

This tour will explore the extensive and diverse fire histories of old-growth redwood forests. We’ll tour groves that have burned under various fire return intervals and burn severities over the last few centuries, and discuss the implications for forest management and ecology in the context of cultural fire, forest ecology, and nearby fire history research. Participants will also learn to tune their eyes to the widespread evidence of fire in these ancient forests. *The final tour site will require up to .5mi of hiking on uneven single track trails.*  

For the second talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Malcolm North will discuss tree spatial patterns and linkages to forest resilience.

For the second talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Scott Stephens will share results from a 20-year forest restoration study of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada.

This webinar will focus on satellite-based and field-based fire severity metrics: which ones work best, where, and when?

For the inaugural talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Sarah Bisbing will present the experimental design and initial post-treatment results from the Adaptive Management Experiment (AMEX), a multi-year, multi-location empirical test of silvicultural approaches to forest resilience in a changing climate.

Recent destructive wildfires in northern California provide an opportunity to investigate how different factors influence home survival. We conducted an analysis of the 2018 Camp Fire, obtaining measurements from a randomly selected subset of homes in Paradise, to determine if nearby burning structures and/or nearby vegetation contributed to home survival, and whether new building codes in place since 2008 helped. The findings, corroborated by photographs taken of damaged but not destroyed homes, point to changes that could substantially improve outcomes.