For the second talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Malcolm North will discuss tree spatial patterns and linkages to forest resilience.
For the second talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Scott Stephens will share results from a 20-year forest restoration study of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada.
This webinar will focus on satellite-based and field-based fire severity metrics: which ones work best, where, and when?
For the inaugural talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Dr. Sarah Bisbing will present the experimental design and initial post-treatment results from the Adaptive Management Experiment (AMEX), a multi-year, multi-location empirical test of silvicultural approaches to forest resilience in a changing climate.
Please join the Southern Sierra Prescribed Fire Council for the 2021 Annual Workshop scheduled on Zoom on November 17, 2021 and in the field on November 18, 2021. View agenda and join the zoom meeting here >
In this webinar, we will present results from a simulation study of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains that investigated the relative effectiveness of a variety of fuel treatment strategies and the tradeoffs of implementing fuels programs with competing management goals.
This webinar will discuss the outcomes of the 2019 Caples Fire, fire effects on legacy trees, fire management take-home messages, volunteer efforts for restoration within the Caples watershed, and avian research within the Caples restoration area.
Joint presentation on 2 topics:
Dr. Marc Meyer (USFS): Framework for post-fire restoration in California’s national forests
Dr. John Williams (UC Davis): Improving the burn: a look at the California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program so far and the challenges ahead
View Flyer PDF with more information here >
A recent evaluation undertaken for the European Forest Institute asked how current understanding of forest systems can help policy makers to balance the apparently competing demands on forest lands. This evaluation will be summarized along with comment on the associated policy implementation. Some of the context and analysis undertaken in this study is thought to be relevant in California.
View recorded presentation on YouTube >
The Plenary Sessions from Fire Management 24/7/365 are now available on YouTube, consolidated into a single video and divided into chapters so you can go right to individual parts of interest:
In this talk, Dr. Jesse Miller will discuss recent research exploring post-fire plant and lichen communities across numerous wildfires that span substantial ecological gradients, using multiple approaches to characterize both fire effects (e.g., local and landscape-scale fire severity) and plant and lichen communities (e.g., phylogenetic diversity, dispersal strategies, and taxonomic diversity).
Watch recording on Youtube here >
Please join the Southern Sierra Prescribed Fire Council for the 2020 Annual Meeting and Outreach, “Fire as a Tool,” scheduled on Zoom on November 17, 2020 from 10:30-2:30. Registration required at http://cemariposa.ucanr.edu
RSVP for the Southern Sierra Prescribed Fire Council annual meeting in Shaver Lake, California!
The field trip will be on nearby Southern California Edison forestry lands with the potential of seeing an active prescribed fire in action (weather dependent). 11/6/2019 will be the field trip and 11/7/2019 will be the annual meeting.
This symposium will focus on the responses of Sierra Nevada forest organisms and ecosystems to increasing climate stresses.
The workshop consists of two intense days of entertaining hands-on activities for teaching students about wildland fire behavior, ecology, management and more. Content focuses on the newly developed curriculum specific to the ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada.
This one day workshop includes presentations and a field trip that will focus on the ecology and management of eastern Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems, and related topics.
This two day workshop is designed for landowners and managers looking to gain skills in prescribed fire planning and implementation
The workshop consists of two intense days of entertaining hands-on activities for teaching students about wildland fire behavior, ecology, management and more.
REGISTER: http://ucanr.edu/blodgett2019 before April 1, 2019
This webinar will share the best tools and resources available to every California teacher to more effectively support student science inquiry and engineering design related to wildland fire.
Join the Southern Sierra Prescribed Fire Council for their annual meeting in Porterville, CA. Attendance is free but please fill out the RSVP by Oct 19th on this page to help us plan.
Sierran forests are facing catastrophic wildfires, vast overstory mortality, extreme understory fuel loading, high vegetative density, and limited regional market options. The incorporation of fire use with fuel and density management treatments is becoming of increasing interest as a tool in the effort to restore Central Sierra forestlands. Can we use fire in a way that sustains timber objectives? Come join us for presentations, a field tour, and thoughtful discussions.
This one day workshop (choose either Colfax or Arnold) is designed for landowners and managers looking to gain skills in prescribed fire planning and implementation
Participants in this 4-day workshop will delve into the fire ecology of major vegetation types in the Sierra Nevada.
What happens when a severely burned forest experiences a second wildfire? This webinar discusses the potential for high severity re-burns in these areas and their potential to initiate a type conversion to a non-forest vegetation type.
UCCE Cooperative Extension will be hosting two two-day workshops in May 2018 designed for landowners and land managers looking to gain skills in prescribed fire planning and implementation. They will included a day of presentations and training and a day of field trip and live burning (weather permitting).
The workshop consists of two intense days of entertaining hands-on activities for teaching students about wildland fire behavior, ecology, management and more. Content focuses on the newly developed curriculum specific to the ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada.
The 255,000 acre 2013 Rim Fire created an opportunity to study fuels treatment effects across a large forested landscape in the Sierra Nevada. Join the webinar to hear what researchers found.
The goal of this symposium is to better understand and promote effective collaborative-based forest management. Please register by Oct 31, 2017.
The California Fire Science Consortium is divided into 4 geographic regions and 1 wildland-urban interface (WUI) team. Statewide coordination of this program is based at UC Berkeley.
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This regional Fire Science Exchange is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges.
Link to another exchange:
