Upcoming and Past Webinars
Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) Conference
The Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) conference addresses the WUI fire risk problems inherent to the built environment to support resilient and equitable communities.
5th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Hybrid Workshop
This interactive workshop will provide practitioners and decision-makers with tools and ideas that support positive fire outcomes and identify opportunities for accelerated Cohesive Strategy implementation. Our program will focus on our theme of the hard truths of risk that are inherent in implementing cross-boundary, large landscape, and community-wide implementation.
Equity and Environmental Justice in Wildfire Series
This webinar will go over results of a recent literature review of studies that focus on the environmental justice aspects of wildfire, as well as present preliminary findings on how different socio-demographic groups have been affected by wildfires across California in the last decade.
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8th California Oak Symposium
Presented by the University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the 8th California Oak Symposium is intended for anyone involved in research, education, management, and conservation of California’s oak woodlands. This includes foresters, range managers, tribes, arborists, landowners, community groups, land trusts and policy makers.
More information and registration at https://ucanr.edu/sites/oaksymposium/
Forest Health Research Program Grantee Webinar: Climate change and wildfires in western North American forests: a review of ecological departures and adaptation strategies
This presentation will summarize a literature review conducted by a team of scientists from across western North America on the topic of climate change and western wildfires. Rapid climate change is bringing warmer, drier, longer wildfire seasons to our region. In fire-dependent forests, these wildfires are burning in fuels that built up during more than a century of policies that favored fire exclusion. Consequently, wildfires have been increasing in severity and area-burned. We focused our review around ten common questions about adaptive forest management and how it can be used to assist climate and wildfire adaptation. The first of these questions addressed how fire exclusion transformed western forests and left them more vulnerable to drought, insects and disease agents, and wildfires.
The Yuba Bear Burn Cooperative Presents Spring 2022 Prescribed Fire Events
This group is hosting a prescribed burn planning event in April and an ongoing virtual series presented on the second Wednesday of each month through May 2022.
Rangeland Summit: California Rangelands, Ranching Stewardship, and 30 x 30
Learn the value of California rangelands and how the ranchers who steward them an help address the state and federal climate strategy goals, protect 30% of land and water by 2030.
Mojave Desert Native Plant Program: 2022 webinar series
During 2022, the Mojave Desert Native Plant Program is hosting a series of webinars on native plant restoration, native plant materials, and related concerns such as drought. These presentations are open to all, and will be recorded for those unable to join at the scheduled times.
9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress Virtual Event
The theme for this year’s AFE congress is “Life with Fire: Prescriptions for Resilience.” . Registration is open and this is now a virtual event only.
Information: http://afefirecongress.org/
Society of American Foresters National Convention
Attendee registration is now open for the fully virtual Society of American Foresters 2021 Convention. Please join us November 3-6, 2021, as we continue to celebrate “Forests for All” and the ecosystems provided by them.
More information and registration at https://eforester.org/safconvention/
2nd Annual Symposium on Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire (RS Fire 2021)
The Pacific Southwest Region of ASPRS is hosting the 2nd Annual Symposium on Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire (RS Fire 2021) in November
More information and registration (free) at https://pswasprs.org/rsfire2021/
Life from the Ashes: Exploring the Impact of Prescribed & Natural Fire on Insects and Other Invertebrates
This program is provided in a collaboration between the Natural Areas Association (NAA) and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation (Xerces). This will be a one day virtual event with early bird rates of $29 (member)/$49 (non-member) rates available until Sept 8, 2021.
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California Fire Safe Council Annual Conference
California Fire Safe Council invites you to their first Resilience Brilliance Awards Sponsored by Perimeter Solutions & Annual Conference October 5 & 6, 2021
The conference, supported in part by the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity group (RFFC), will be held October 6 and convene mitigation groups around educational and best practices forums and seminars.
Click HERE for more information on attendance, nomination instructions, hotel location, and reservation information.
4th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop: Hard Truths of Risk Inherent in Cross-boundary, Large Landscape, and Community-wide Implementation
This interactive workshop will provide practitioners and decision-makers with tools and ideas that support positive fire outcomes and identify opportunities for accelerated Cohesive Strategy implementation. Our program will focus on our theme of the hard truths of risk that are inherent in implementing cross-boundary, large landscape, and community-wide implementation.
Wildfire: Weather, Water, Weeds, Wildlife: Virtual event
Join the Council for Watershed Health for a symposium to better understand wildfire effects on communities and the health of our watersheds! Expert panelists will share recent education efforts, guidelines, and research on the physical, cultural and ecological conditions related to increasing frequency and scale of wildfires in the region. More information, call for submissions, and save the dates at https://www.watershedhealth.org/2021-wildfire-symposium
IAWF Workforce Resilience Ignite Talk Series: What does it mean to be a good ally? Actions towards allyship.
IAWF continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘What does it mean to be a good ally? Actions towards allyship’
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IAWF Workforce Resilience Ignite Talk Series: Fitness and Wellness for Performance in Wildland Firefighting
IAWF continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘Fitness and Wellness for Performance in Wildland Firefighting’
Using Native Plants for Fire-Resistant Landscapes: Outside Virtual Event
Join New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL)'s live virtual session next Tuesday, June 29th from 10-11:30 AM PDT, Using Native Plants for Fire-Resistant Landscapes with Greg Rubin (fee $48). Register at https://learning.ndal.org/courses/june-29-2021-using-native-plants-for-fire-resistant-landscapes.
IAWF Workforce Resilience Ignite Talk Series: Wildland Firefighters Mental Health and Well-being
IAWF continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘Wildland Firefighters Mental Health and Well-being‘ Presented by a panel of 4 speakers.
The 2021 FEMA HiEd Program Virtual Symposium
The National Training and Education Division will host the 23 rd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education (HiEd) Symposium in partnership with the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) on June 8–10, 2021, via Zoom.
Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management
The IAWF 16th Wildland Fire Safety Summit and the 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference will address the issues that make the global wildland fire community safe, smart and supported.
2021 Wildfire Prevention Summit
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This is the first in a series of Wildfire Prevention Summits. This premiere event will examine the four primary causes (Arson, Accidental, Roadside & Utility Infrastructure) of wildfire ignitions with a focus on Roadside and Utility Infrastructure ignitions in the Western United States. The intent of the Summit is to provide a venue for an exchange of dialogue regarding current issues, best practices and emerging solutions on wildfire prevention. Our speakers and panels will provide a national perspective while discussing regional, statewide and local initiatives.
Sustaining Healthier Communities: Plugged in presents two-part virtual series on wildfire
Sustaining Healthier Communities: Join UC Davis for a special two-part Plugged in virtual event.
Expert panelists will discuss wildfires, their impact on communities and how UC Davis is responding in ways that push boundaries and redefine what's possible.
Fire Weather Research Workshop: Virtual workshop
This is the second Fire Weather Research Workshop at San Jose State University with the aim of providing the latest information and current state-of-knowledge on fire weather research to fire management agencies, scientists, students and other stakeholders. Following from our successful first workshop in 2019, this year we have extended the speaker list to our colleagues and partners across the world to provide an international perspective on current fire weather research.
USFS R&D SCIENCE x Post-Disturbance Restoration Webinars
Join the USDA Forest Service April 5-9, 2021 for the next series of Forest Service SCIENCEx webinars!
Daily webinars presented by Forest Service scientists and experts will showcase research and best practices for post-disturbance restoration across the country.
Wildfire and the Biosphere initiative
Know Innovation, supported by the National Science Foundation, is hosting a Wildfire and the Biosphere Innovation Lab to generate creative strategies and new research collaborations aimed at improving understanding of different types of fires across temporal and spatial scales, predicting feedbacks between wildfire and living systems, and improving the representation of biological processes in models.
The 5-day virtual Innovation Lab will take place May 17-19, May 21, and May 26, 2021. PI-level researchers-- biologists (molecular to global scale), engineers, Earth scientists, physical scientists, social scientists, and computer scientists-- are strongly encouraged to apply before the deadline of March 1 (lab application).
PODs Collaborative Fire Planning Workshop: Virtual Workshop
During this virtual workshop we will share case studies and lessons learned from the field, showcase multiple scales of potential operational delineations (PODs) work that have been utilized and adapted for a range of applications, identify necessary developments in collaborative fire planning and PODs, and much more.
IAWF Workforce Resilience Ignite Talk Series: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Virtual Event
IAWF continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A Practice for Challenging Times and All Times. A way of being happy. ‘ Presented by Michelle Reugebrink.
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