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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
Communities across the central United States gain a wide range of benefits from prescribed fire, including improving forage quality, reducing the intensity of wildfires, restoring habitat for game species and rare species, and renewing a positive…
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 22 2024
Updates on the Colorado Smoke Management Program, pile burning, weather parameters to monitor, effective pile burning
Information on the Colorado Fire Commission (CFC) Prescribed Fire Subcommittee efforts
Presentation on …
Feb 21 2024
Speaker: Cinnamon Dixon, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
It is expected that restoring southeastern pine savannas will boost ecosystem services. However, the success of this restoration depends on how well we can restore ecosystems and…
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…
Feb 15 2024
Land management programs are frequently confronted with the imperative of incorporating the most advanced scientific knowledge into their decision-making processes along with filling voids in research needed to move along effective management.…
Feb 15 2024
TreeMap, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data, and the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) form an “analysis ecosystem” where spatially explicit estimation of forest characteristics can be made for current or future conditions. TreeMap takes the…