Part of the Fire and Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public

Part of the Fire and Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public

Part of the Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public

Next webinar with Dr. Phil McCormack has been postponed

This trip has been postponned due to weather!

Description: The ACCG Monitoring workgroup and the SOFAR Landscape Design Team will host a one day field tour that will highlight ongoing restoration planning efforts in the Caldor Fire building upon an earlier field tour which highlighted ongoing monitoring and research in the Power Fire. We hope this field tour will provide on-the-ground examples and the opportunity to discuss past and future management plans for wildfire recovery in mixed-conifer forests and riparian areas.

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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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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.

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Following the 2020 Bobcat Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, the SGVCOG identified a need for a regional program to provide wildfire adaptation and prevention resources to cities and residents. To mark the launch of this program, the SGVCOG is bringing together expert panelists to discuss how cities and communities can help support successful wildfire programs and prevent future wildfires.

Recordings are available at: sgvcog.org/wildfiresummit

The ACCG Monitoring workgroup and the SOFAR Landscape Design Team is hosting a symposium that will highlight ongoing monitoring and research in the Power Fire and its application in post fire restoration planning (e.g. Caldor Fire).

Join the authors of the recent publication “Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests” for a discussion and presentation about the latest recommendations and considerations for managing forests for resilience.