We know surprisingly little about how burning impacts the health of trees that survive fire. Can fire increase water availability and growth for surviving trees by reducing forest density? Or do the fire injuries that a tree sustains override any potential benefit? Answering these questions can help us understand the post-fire recovery timeline… read more about the webinar "Impacts of prescribed fire on drought vulnerability and short-term growth of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir"

Wildland firefighters are exposed to hazards when working; these hazards can result in serious injury or death. Understanding the activities in which firefighters are engaged when they are injured, the hazards to which they were exposed during that activity that caused the injury, and the resulting injury severity is critical to manage risk of… read more about the webinar "The price of doing business: Severe injuries in wildland firefighters by activity performed and hazard encountered"

Across the western United States, wildfires are posing increasing costs to ecosystems and society. These trends present persistent challenges for managing community risk to wildfire and necessitate the implementation of active forest management practices that reduce wildfire hazard. One such strategy gaining interest in recent years is the… read more about the webinar "Engineering fire-resilient forests: Understanding the potential for aspen to reduce wildfire hazard"

A New Foundation for LANDFIRE- Current and Future Innovations LANDFIRE has been a foundational dataset for countless applications within the Forest Service and beyond. The machine learning methodology largely used in the creation of LF National (circa 2001) and LF 2016 Remap was rooted in supervised classification of imagery using… read more about the webinar "A New Foundation for LANDFIRE"

On 8 August 2023, a wind-driven wildfire pushed across the city of Lahaina, located in West Maui, Hawaii, resulting in at least 100 deaths and an estimated economic loss of 4-6 billion dollars. The Lahaina wildfire was associated with strong, dry downslope winds gusting to 31-41 ms-1 (60-80 kt) that initiated the fire by damaging power… read more about the webinar "The Meteorology of the 2023 Maui Wildfire"

Recording of the research webinar presented by Spencer Vieira on his work examining the impacts of wildfire and climate on western larch regeneration. Jointly hosted by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Northwest Fire Science Consortium. 

Fire plays a critical role in forests of the Western United States (US), but as… read more about the webinar "Impacts of climate and wildfire on western larch regeneration"

Many firefighters have been injured or killed due to rapid changes in weather causing unexpected fire behavior. Examples include the thunderstorm outflow that killed 19 on the Yarnell Hill Fire, the cold front passage that killed 14 on the South Canyon Fire, and the wind shift that killed 3 on the Twisp River Fire. Many of these weather events… read more about the webinar "The Fire Weather Alert System: A new fire weather warning system for on-the-ground firefighters"

This webinar, recorded March 15, 2023, looks at how consecutive fires in a relatively-short time frame impact forest recovery. Join researchers Kristin Braziunas (Technical University of Munich, Germany) and Tyler Hoecker (Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center) as they discuss recent studies in the Greater Yellowstone and Glacier National… read more about the webinar "Short-interval high-severity reburns change the playing field for forest recovery"

This is Part 3 of a joint webinar series brought to you by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Association of Fire Ecology that focuses on recent research of fire effects on wildlife species and communities. It is based on a special issue of Fire Ecology.

Part 3 includes the following speakers and topics: Gavin Jones (… read more about the webinar "Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife Part 3"

This is Part 2 of a joint webinar series brought to you by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Association of Fire Ecology that focuses on recent research of fire effects on wildlife species and communities. It is based on a special issue of Fire Ecology.

Part 2 includes the following speakers and topics: Peter Coates (… read more about the webinar "Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife Part 2"