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May 2 2024
Speaker: Trevor Roper
The increasing abundance and range of tick populations and tick-borne pathogens pose a growing public health threat. This highlights the need for sustainable land management techniques near human settlements to control tick…
Apr 23 2024
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…
Apr 15 2024
University of Idaho is offering a virtual S-290 (Intermediate Fire Behavior) course this spring ($300 registration fee). The course is self-paced in the Wildland Fire Learning Portal with live discussions on April 15th to 19th …
Apr 15 - 19 2024
Fuel, Fire and Smoke: Evolving to Meet Our Climate Challenge
Wildfires present an increasing challenge to humanity and the ecosystems and atmosphere we depend on. The ability of societies to respond to larger and more destructive wildfire events and…
Apr 4 2024
Speaker: Samuel Stockton
Bio: Sam is a graduate student and researcher in the Remote Sensing Lab at West Virginia University. After obtaining degrees in education and geography from Concord University, he worked in restoration and invasive…
Apr 2 2024
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…
Mar 27 2024
Please join he Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils Coordinating Group to learn about the development of Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs in Oregon and Pennsylvania.
The mission of the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils Coordinating Group…
Mar 18 2024
University of Idaho is offering a virtual Rx-310 (Introduction to Fire Effects) course this spring ($300 registration fee). The course is self-paced in the Wildland Fire Learning Portal with live discussions on March 18th to April…
Mar 6 2024
Join Ron Waukau, Forest Manager at Menominee Tribal Enterprises, to discuss Fire and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Lake States.
About the Wisconsin Forestry Center's Prescribed Fire for Forest Management Webinar Series: Foresters and land…
Mar 5 2024
Abstract: Despite the growing impacts, interest and investment in wildfire traditional economic tools such as cost modeling, cost benefit analysis, and cost effectiveness have played a relatively limited role in informing wildfire management. High levels…