NWCG RX-310 Course at the Association for Fire Ecology Congress
Dec
2
to Dec 6

NWCG RX-310 Course at the Association for Fire Ecology Congress

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Wildland fire managers and practitioners can access the latest fire and fuels science and connect with other wildland fire professionals while completing Introduction to Fire Effects (RX-310) in conjunction with the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in New Orleans, LA. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and communicate the relationships between basic fire regimes and fire effects, the effects of fire treatments on fire effects, and to manipulate fire treatments to achieve desired fire effects (NWCG 2017) while learning about the latest tools and techniques from wildland fire practitioners and researchers from across the globe.

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Reforestation Opportunity Webinar
Jun
25
12:00 PM12:00
Webinar

Reforestation Opportunity Webinar

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. 

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Behave7 for Prescribed Fire Planning
May
22
10:00 AM10:00

Behave7 for Prescribed Fire Planning

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

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Behave7 for Fire Analysts
May
20
10:00 AM10:00

Behave7 for Fire Analysts

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)

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Call for Student Proposals: CFSC Special Session at AFE 2025
Apr
22
to May 10

Call for Student Proposals: CFSC Special Session at AFE 2025

The California Fire Science Consortium (CFSC) is inviting students to submit proposals for a special session at the upcoming AFE conference in Louisiana!

This is a unique opportunity to showcase your California-based fire science research to a broader audience. We’re seeking proposals for 10-minute flash talks or 20-minute full presentations. Selected applicants will receive full coverage of their AFE registration fee and will present their work at the CFSC special session.

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Pre- and Post-Fire Impacts of Beaver Dams and Beaver Dam Analogs
Apr
15
9:00 AM09:00
Webinar

Pre- and Post-Fire Impacts of Beaver Dams and Beaver Dam Analogs

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.

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Cooperative Extension Service Wildland Fire Peer-Learning Exchange
Apr
15
to Apr 17

Cooperative Extension Service Wildland Fire Peer-Learning Exchange

The workshop is planned for April 15-17 outside of beautiful Yosemite National Park at the UC Merced Yosemite Field Station. The goal of the workshop is to provide hands-on training for fire-related programming, peer learning, and networking opportunities amongst extension colleagues nationwide. 

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Planning Prescribed Fires at Landscape Levels: Scaling Treatments to the Problem
Mar
24
8:30 AM08:30

Planning Prescribed Fires at Landscape Levels: Scaling Treatments to the Problem

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.

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Webinar Series: Human Causes and Human Consequences of Wildfires in the Western United States
Jan
28
to Jan 30
Webinar

Webinar Series: Human Causes and Human Consequences of Wildfires in the Western United States

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Join us for an engaging three-day webinar series titled Human Causes and Human Consequences of Wildfires in the Western United States. This event is organized by the six regional exchanges of the Joint Fire Science Program's Fire Science Exchange Network: the Northwest Fire Science Consortium, Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, Southern Rockies Fire Science Network, and Southwest Fire Science Consortium.

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The Canoe Fire: Recovery and Resilience after 20 years
Aug
16
9:00 AM09:00
Field Tour/Workshop, Outside Event

The Canoe Fire: Recovery and Resilience after 20 years

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*

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A Deep History of Fire in the Old Growth
Aug
9
9:00 AM09:00
Field Tour/Workshop, Outside Event

A Deep History of Fire in the Old Growth

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.*  

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Establishing Directions in Postfire Debris Flow Science Conference
May
20
to May 22
Conference/Materials

Establishing Directions in Postfire Debris Flow Science Conference

  • Beach Retreat and Lodge (map)
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Researchers and practitioners from all disciplines related to post-fire debris flow hazards are invited to attend a 2.5-day conference to synthesize recent research and plan for the future of science in this field. To find out more information or to register, visit: https://www.cafirescience.org/establishing-directions-in-postfire-debris-flow-science-conference

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Fire Use Around the World: Purposes, Principles, Policies, and Practices
Apr
23
9:00 AM09:00
Webinar

Fire Use Around the World: Purposes, Principles, Policies, and Practices

 

Controlling fire was the first major technological advance made by early humans. These days, fire is still used as a management tool, but (usually!) under more prescribed conditions than in the Paleolithic. Prescribed fire is carried out in many different countries, by a wide variety of people, under a wide variety of circumstances. It is used on all of the inhabited continents, by trained professional personnel, resource managers, researchers, ranchers and farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, and private citizens. Among other things, prescribed fire can maintain or alter ecosystems, create or destroy habitat, promote wildlife populations or livestock populations, control weedy plants or liberate native species, restore ecosystems, and meet important sociocultural needs. And after a century of more of repression, fire use in management is experiencing a renaissance. Taken in sum, there is a huge diversity in prescribed burning purposes, principles, policies, and practices that can serve to incentivize and inform fire use around the world. In this webinar series, we present a survey of prescribed fire from around the globe, focused on seven topic areas: fuel management; rangeland and landscape management; management of production forests; wildlife management; monitoring and datasets; and ecological restoration and cultural fire.

Webinar Schedule

February 27, 2024: Worldwide view on prescribed fire. Where are we?

April 2, 2024: Preparing for the “big one”: prescribed fire as a strategic fuel reduction tool

April 23, 2024: Traditional and long-time use of prescribed fire

Future dates to be announced

 

About the Artist: Josep Serra

My career as an illustrator of landscapes where fire passes or has passed, as well as other natural phenomena was born before the ashes of the Horta de Sant Joan wildfire accident (2009, Spain). But a few years later, it gained momentum and materialized in the ART&FIRE collection at the Pau Costa Foundation's hands. Since then, interest in representing figuratively and abstractly has grown as the potential of the new extreme wildfires has grown. All the tasks carried out obey a non-profit intention and are in the line of "artivism" in terms of social awareness about the role that each of us must play in preventing these phenomena that have already reached a ceiling in the capacity of extinction. I try in most cases to talk about fire visually but without being too catastrophist or utopian. This series is no exception.

 

Past Webinars

 

Signs of works in progress in the front line control /Rx.fires framework/. This is a fiction-based ortoview representing through the machinery trails among the sleeves. The illustration is a conceptual work rather than a figurative scenario trying to reach the famous Golden Ratio. Digital tech artwork. JSerra

art by Josep serra

A worldwide view of the roles, status, and future of prescribed fire

February 27, 2024 900 PST | 1800 CET

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In the inaugural seminar of this series, four fire experts will provide an overview of prescribed fire from different viewpoints, disciplines, and regions. They will discuss the role of prescribed fire in ecosystems, connections to culture and community, best practices and performance metrics for evaluating outcomes, and they will speculate on the future of prescribed fire. This overview will provide a foundation for future seminars, each of which will cover these topics in greater depth.

Presented by:

Marc Castellnou, Wildland Fire Incident Commander and Fire Analyst, Catalan Fire Service, Spain

Paulo M. Fernandes, Associate Professor, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research, Tall Timbers, USA

Luisa Alfaro, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Costa Rica

 

Here my target is to represent the controlled fire by FIREFIGHTERS ALONG THE PLAINS in a way IN WHICH IF YOU look upwards, the smoke coming from these Rx fires could be that coming FROM ACTIVE wildland fire. Thus IS A way to emphasize that we are using the same chemical reaction for prevention purposes. Digital tech artwork. JSerra

art by Josep serra

Preparing for the “big one”: prescribed fire as a strategic fuel reduction tool

April 2, 2024 900 - 1030 PST | 1800 - 1930 CET

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Wildfires are becoming bigger and more severe around the world, overwhelming firefighters’ capacity to control them. Prescribed fires can be used to safely introduce fire in the landscape and regulate fire regimes through fuel management and by building landscape resilience. Is this approach working?

This week, four fire experts will discuss how fire and resource managers are using prescribed fire to prevent wildfire spread. They will discuss strategic goals and tactics, tradeoffs between broad landscape resilience and local fuel management, and whether prescribed fire intensities are enough to affect outcomes.

Presenters:

Tessa Oliver Manager of the Western Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association, South Africa

Jorge Andres Saavedra Corporacion Nacional forestal, CONAF, Chile

Marta Miralles, Catalan Fire Service, Spain

Stephen Fillmore, Fuels Operations Specialist USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, USA

 

Prescribed fires IN THIS drawing adopt here an interesting view with slope UP AND  down to express that Rx fires are ALSO USED in that complex topographies, in that case in different timelines. This give us a peculiar RESULTING LANDSCAPE in A WAY of mosaicism OF COLOR COMBINING BLACK and white but it COULD BE also IMAGINED AS green/black duality. Ink tech. J Serra

art by Josep serra

Traditional and long-time use of prescribed fire

April 23, 2024 900 - 1030 PST | 1800 - 1930 CET

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Fire is still used as a cultural process and management tool in different regions worldwide. We focus on the examples of the Pyrenees, northern Spain and the open forests of South America. In these areas, local communities of shepherds, farmers, and hunters have continued to use fire actively as an uninterrupted landscape management tool for millennia.

However, the loss of local knowledge and the abandonment of rural areas have led to a decline in this practice. Once this knowledge is lost, it is difficult to recover. The knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, and fire is not just a technique; it is also linked to day-to-day life, myths, and festivities.

Presenters:

-Eric Rigolot, Unité de recherche Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM), France

-Luis Alfonso Perez, Fire Service of the Asturias region, Spain

-Dario Coria, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Santiago del Estero, Argentina

 

The International Prescribed Fire Webinar Series is organized and supported by California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program, a collaboration between CalFire and the Safford Lab at the University of California-Davis; and the California Fire Science Consortium.

 
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2024 FFERAL Lecture Series: Increasing the odds of (forest) success: persistence potential via learning while doing
Feb
8
2:00 PM14:00
Lecture/Talk

2024 FFERAL Lecture Series: Increasing the odds of (forest) success: persistence potential via learning while doing

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.

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The 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
Dec
4
to Dec 8
Conference/Materials

The 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress

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This event will include workshops, field trips, and 3 full days of presentations, discussion groups, and networking opportunities around the theme, “Igniting Connections: Celebrating our fire family across generations, cultures, and disciplines.”

For more information and to register, visit https://afefirecongress.org/

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6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop
Nov
6
to Nov 10
Field Tour/Workshop

6th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop

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The International Association of Wildland Fire is presenting the workshop in partnership with the Wildfire Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) and the Western, Southeast, and Northeast Regional Strategy Committees.

The Cohesive Strategy remains the solid framework by which to address and identify solutions for today’s complex wildland fire issues. In providing the pathway to change the negative trajectory of wildland fire, the Cohesive Strategy continues to evolve to meet the current and future challenges facing federal, tribal, state, local, and nongovernmental stakeholders.

The National Workshops were conceived to help stakeholders understand the Cohesive Strategy and see themselves as part of the solutions to wildland fire issues across the nation. The Workshops helped to build and strengthen relationships, support Cohesive Strategy activities, and facilitate Cohesive Strategy implementation.

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California Wildfire Conference
Oct
24
to Oct 26

California Wildfire Conference

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Coastal Quest, in partnership with Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative, is proud to present the first California Wildfire Conference. This three-day exchange will bring together a diverse community of wildfire practitioners to focus on understanding, preventing, and recovering from wildfires.

For more information and to register, visit:

https://coastal-quest.idloom.events/californiawildfireconference

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Forest Stewardship Workshop: San Bernardino County
Sep
6
to Nov 1

Forest Stewardship Workshop: San Bernardino County

This workshop series will help landowners develop plans to improve and protect their forest lands in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The workshops will address management objectives and planning, forest restoration, fuels reduction, project development, permitting, and cost-share opportunities. Participants will connect with other landowners and learn how to collect information to develop their own management plans.

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Why do houses burn in wildfires and what can we do about it?
Aug
4
2:00 PM14:00
Webinar

Why do houses burn in wildfires and what can we do about it?

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.

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