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May 16 2024
Presenter: Maxwell Cook, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
Across the western United States, wildfires are posing increasing costs to ecosystems and society. These trends present persistent challenges for managing…
Apr 24 2024
USGS Biologist Michelle Jeffries will discuss how her team has integrated LANDFIRE data in their publicly available tool: The Land Treatment Exploration Tool. The Exploration Tool is a "...designed to assist land managers with rangeland restoration and/…
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 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
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…
Mar 19 2024
Join us for a live virtual session with a panel of researchers and fuels managers about fuel treatments and what we know about the effectiveness of treatments. This facilitated panel discussion will be guided by your questions.
Mar 13 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…
Mar 12 2024
On 7 September 2020, strong winds in western Oregon ignited and spread many small fires, leading to multiple simultaneous megafires (fires > 404 km2) that burned across multiple land ownerships. These fires burned at differing severities, resulting…
Mar 6 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…
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…