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May 16 2024
In a nutshell: This panel discussion reflects on fire management decisions made – and opportunities missed – during the San Juan National Forest’s 2023 fire season, and how those decisions represent an organizational evolution toward more nuanced and…
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…
May 13 - 16 2024
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians welcomes you to the Intertribal Timber Council’s Forty-Seventh Annual National Indian Timber Symposium being held May 13-16, 2024, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort and Convention Center in Cherokee, NC. Aligning…
May 5 2024
The National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC) Mixed Module 20-Day Session is a program designed to give individuals an opportunity to increase their prescribed fire practitioner skills and gain confidence in their own ability to…
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…
May 2 - 7 2024
Agency Administrators and Line Officers are being tasked to aggressively implement fuels management programs. This consists of gaining additional skills to effectively manage evolving fuels management plans that may need to meet a variety of objectives.…
Apr 24 2024
Join us for an upcoming land manager-focused panel webinar virtual session about selective science use, impacts to land management, and methods for reducing misinformation in collaborative forest management. Hear from subject-matter experts who have…
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 16 2024
Abstract: As fire disasters in California increase in severity and frequency, the costs accumulate for federal, state, and local governments, insurers, residents, and communities. While the costs of wildfires are difficult to quantify, the 2018 Carr fire…