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Feb 29 2024
Fire suppression and past selective logging have fundamentally changed frequent-fire adapted forests. Management options available to address this problem include mechanical treatments (Mech), prescribed fire (Fire), or combinations of these treatments (…
Feb 29 2024
Within the Great Basin of the western United States (US), hundreds of thousands of hectares of highly imperiled sagebrush ecosystems are converted to invasive annual grasses or seeded states each year following wildfires. In response to the effects of…
Feb 28 2024
Saba will be talking about the two manuscripts from her Master’s work, which focuses on updating and calibrating measurements between CBI, RdNBR, and individual field-based severity metrics throughout the Interior Pacific Northwest. The first key finding…
Feb 28 2024
Join the Rocky Mountain Research Station for the Spring 2024 Science You Can Use webinar series featuring seven land-manager focused webinars. These one-hour sessions will begin with concise presentations followed by a question and answers…
Feb 27 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…
Feb 22 2024
Sarah McCaffrey, PhD, retired in 2022 after 20 years as a fire social scientist with the US Forest Service where her research focused on understanding the social dynamics of fire management. This included research projects that examined the role of…
Feb 22 2024
BehavePlus was first developed in 1998 by Pat Andrews, following the success of the DOS version of BEHAVE. Still in use today, there have been six versions, each with upgrades to aid in better calculating fire behavior. The current version of the…
Feb 21 2024
SNAP (Southern Nevada Agency Partnership) provides opportunities for land management agencies in Southern Nevada to connect and work together on projects in the area. Land management agencies included in the partnership are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…
Feb 21 2024
Join the Rocky Mountain Research Station for the Spring 2024 Science You Can Use webinar series featuring seven land-manager focused webinars. These one-hour sessions will begin with concise presentations followed by a question and answers…
Feb 20 2024
In a nutshell: Following a severe wildfire, recovery efforts can benefit from using "Engineering With Nature" principles to utilize existing materials on the landscape for slope stabilization, erosion control, and stream restoration. Learn about the…