This is Part 1 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 the journal Fire Ecology.

Part 1 includes the following speakers and topics: Damon… read more about the webinar "Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife Part 1"

This webinar provides an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its new capabilities in version 6.2, with focus on several new additions. Hosted by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, a regional fire science exchange funded by the Joint Fire Science Program. Presented by Chuck McHugh, USFS Rocky Mountain Research… read more about the webinar "Overview of FlamMap6 geospatial modeling capabilities"

This is Day 2 of a 3-day webinar series focused on Wildland Firefighter Health brought to you by several of the Joint Fire Science Program's Exchanges. It deals with topics such as stress, PTSD, and moral injury all in how they specifically affect wildland firefighters.

Presentations: 

• Wildland Firefighter Mental Health… read more about the webinar "2022 Wildland Firefighter Health Webinar Series Day 2 - Mental Health"

This is Day 1 of a 3-day webinar series focused on firefighter health organized by several of the Joint Fire Science Program exchanges. It covers several recent studies specific to wildland firefighters on reproductive health, nutrition, sleep patterns, and smoke exposure.

Presentations include:

• Smoke Exposure and Health… read more about the webinar "2022 Wildland Firefighter Health Webinar Series Day 1 - Physical Health"

Weather plays an integral role in fire management due to the direct and indirect effects it has on fire behavior. However, fire managers may not use all information available to them during the decision-making process, instead utilizing simplifying decision rules called heuristics, i.e. mental "shortcuts." These shortcuts can be adaptive and… read more about the webinar "Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making"

High-severity fires create lasting effects on landscape vegetation mosaics. Recent increases in fire activity and severity highlight the need to understand the long-term effects of high-severity fire, including interactions with subsequent fires. This webinar presents results from a study that investigated the influence of fire frequency (once… read more about the webinar "Fate of early twentieth century fires: fuels and forest structure of different fire histories in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness"

Climate warming and increasing frequency and severity of wildfires have the potential to undermine forest resilience to wildfires through changes in seed availability and post-fire climate. This webinar described results from a study in which researchers quantified the impacts of wildfires on microclimate conditions and evaluated how… read more about the webinar "Wildfire effects on microclimate conditions and seedling regeneration in Northern Rockies mixed conifer forests"

The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network partnered with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s (DNRC) Forestry Division to share information about the development of a statewide wildfire risk assessment. The risk assessment will assist with planning and prioritizing work around the three goals of the Cohesive Strategy… read more about the webinar "Montana Wildfire Risk Assessment"

In this 40 minute video, Bob Keane talks about his over 30 years of fire and vegetation research in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. He covers his studies on the Ponderosa pine ecosystem and the whitebark pine ecosystem.

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In this webinar, Dr. Robert Keane presents information on how to use the Photoload technique to sample wildland forest fuels.