JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network
The California Fire Science Seminar Series will return on February 4th, 2025. Join us every Tuesday through March 18th at 10 am PT for virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science topics from a range of topics and speakers.
CAL FIRE, Berkeley Forests, and the California Fire Science Consortium are sponsoring a morning workshop at the California Forest Science Symposium to highlight and discuss landscape-scale prescribed burning. This is an add-on workshop that is free and open to the public, though attendance will be limited.
The California Society of American Foresters and California Fire Science Consortium are partnering to host the first annual California Forest Science Symposium on March 24-25, 2025. This symposium is bringing together researchers, land managers, and practitioners to share new knowledge on forests and their management.
The workshop is planned for April 15-17 outside of beautiful Yosemite National Park at the UC Merced Yosemite Field Station. The goal of the workshop is to provide hands-on training for fire-related programming, peer learning, and networking opportunities amongst extension colleagues nationwide.
For the inaugural talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Professor Don Hankins discusses ecocultural stewardship of oak woodlands and riparian forests for diverse outcomes.
Join CFSC PI, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, for a continuation of the Fish and Fire conversation at the upcoming Fish and Fire 2025 Workshop, which will take place during the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference.
Join us for an engaging three-day webinar series titled Human Causes and Human Consequences of Wildfires in the Western United States. This event is organized by the six regional exchanges of the Joint Fire Science Program's Fire Science Exchange Network: the Northwest Fire Science Consortium, Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, Southern Rockies Fire Science Network, and Southwest Fire Science Consortium.
The Mojave Desert Native Plant Materials Development and Restoration Workshop will be held on October 8th through the 10th in Victorville, CA. This event is hybrid, with both a zoom and in-person option. The workshop is free and open to the public.
The 2003 Canoe Fire burned through nearly 10,000 acres of old-growth redwood forest in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, making it one of the largest fires to affect these iconic forests in recent history. While the fire had mostly low severity effects, some areas burned at moderate and high severity. Now, after 20 years of regrowth, some of the beneficial effects have dwindled, while overs have been maintained through prescribed fire and other management activities. Join the park managers and researchers that were involved in the suppression, management and monitoring efforts for a discussion about the Canoe Fire’s lasting effects, and the past and future of fire use in redwood forests. *Tour sites may require up to 1mi of hiking on uneven single track trails*
This tour will explore the extensive and diverse fire histories of old-growth redwood forests. We’ll tour groves that have burned under various fire return intervals and burn severities over the last few centuries, and discuss the implications for forest management and ecology in the context of cultural fire, forest ecology, and nearby fire history research. Participants will also learn to tune their eyes to the widespread evidence of fire in these ancient forests. *The final tour site will require up to .5mi of hiking on uneven single track trails.*
Researchers and practitioners from all disciplines related to post-fire debris flow hazards are invited to attend a 2.5-day conference to synthesize recent research and plan for the future of science in this field. To find out more information or to register, visit: https://www.cafirescience.org/establishing-directions-in-postfire-debris-flow-science-conference
The fourth California Chaparral Symposium (Cal Poly SLO; May 7-9, 2024) will focus on science, management, and conservation of chaparral ecosystems.
Controlling fire was the first major technological advance made by early humans. These days, fire is still used as a management tool, but (usually!) under more prescribed conditions than in the Paleolithic. Prescribed fire is carried out in many different countries, by a wide variety of people, under a wide variety of circumstances. It is used on all of the inhabited continents, by trained professional personnel, resource managers, researchers, ranchers and farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, and private citizens. Among other things, prescribed fire can maintain or alter ecosystems, create or destroy habitat, promote wildlife populations or livestock populations, control weedy plants or liberate native species, restore ecosystems, and meet important sociocultural needs. And after a century of more of repression, fire use in management is experiencing a renaissance. Taken in sum, there is a huge diversity in prescribed burning purposes, principles, policies, and practices that can serve to incentivize and inform fire use around the world. In this webinar series, we present a survey of prescribed fire from around the globe, focused on seven topic areas: fuel management; rangeland and landscape management; management of production forests; wildlife management; monitoring and datasets; and ecological restoration and cultural fire.
February 27, 2024: Worldwide view on prescribed fire. Where are we?
April 2, 2024: Preparing for the “big one”: prescribed fire as a strategic fuel reduction tool
April 23, 2024: Traditional and long-time use of prescribed fire
Future dates to be announced
My career as an illustrator of landscapes where fire passes or has passed, as well as other natural phenomena was born before the ashes of the Horta de Sant Joan wildfire accident (2009, Spain). But a few years later, it gained momentum and materialized in the ART&FIRE collection at the Pau Costa Foundation's hands. Since then, interest in representing figuratively and abstractly has grown as the potential of the new extreme wildfires has grown. All the tasks carried out obey a non-profit intention and are in the line of "artivism" in terms of social awareness about the role that each of us must play in preventing these phenomena that have already reached a ceiling in the capacity of extinction. I try in most cases to talk about fire visually but without being too catastrophist or utopian. This series is no exception.
Signs of works in progress in the front line control /Rx.fires framework/. This is a fiction-based ortoview representing through the machinery trails among the sleeves. The illustration is a conceptual work rather than a figurative scenario trying to reach the famous Golden Ratio. Digital tech artwork. JSerra
art by Josep serra
February 27, 2024 900 PST | 1800 CET
In the inaugural seminar of this series, four fire experts will provide an overview of prescribed fire from different viewpoints, disciplines, and regions. They will discuss the role of prescribed fire in ecosystems, connections to culture and community, best practices and performance metrics for evaluating outcomes, and they will speculate on the future of prescribed fire. This overview will provide a foundation for future seminars, each of which will cover these topics in greater depth.
Presented by:
Marc Castellnou, Wildland Fire Incident Commander and Fire Analyst, Catalan Fire Service, Spain
Paulo M. Fernandes, Associate Professor, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research, Tall Timbers, USA
Luisa Alfaro, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Costa Rica
Here my target is to represent the controlled fire by FIREFIGHTERS ALONG THE PLAINS in a way IN WHICH IF YOU look upwards, the smoke coming from these Rx fires could be that coming FROM ACTIVE wildland fire. Thus IS A way to emphasize that we are using the same chemical reaction for prevention purposes. Digital tech artwork. JSerra
art by Josep serra
April 2, 2024 900 - 1030 PST | 1800 - 1930 CET
Wildfires are becoming bigger and more severe around the world, overwhelming firefighters’ capacity to control them. Prescribed fires can be used to safely introduce fire in the landscape and regulate fire regimes through fuel management and by building landscape resilience. Is this approach working?
This week, four fire experts will discuss how fire and resource managers are using prescribed fire to prevent wildfire spread. They will discuss strategic goals and tactics, tradeoffs between broad landscape resilience and local fuel management, and whether prescribed fire intensities are enough to affect outcomes.
Presenters:
Tessa Oliver Manager of the Western Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association, South Africa
Jorge Andres Saavedra Corporacion Nacional forestal, CONAF, Chile
Marta Miralles, Catalan Fire Service, Spain
Stephen Fillmore, Fuels Operations Specialist USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, USA
Prescribed fires IN THIS drawing adopt here an interesting view with slope UP AND down to express that Rx fires are ALSO USED in that complex topographies, in that case in different timelines. This give us a peculiar RESULTING LANDSCAPE in A WAY of mosaicism OF COLOR COMBINING BLACK and white but it COULD BE also IMAGINED AS green/black duality. Ink tech. J Serra
art by Josep serra
April 23, 2024 900 - 1030 PST | 1800 - 1930 CET
Fire is still used as a cultural process and management tool in different regions worldwide. We focus on the examples of the Pyrenees, northern Spain and the open forests of South America. In these areas, local communities of shepherds, farmers, and hunters have continued to use fire actively as an uninterrupted landscape management tool for millennia.
However, the loss of local knowledge and the abandonment of rural areas have led to a decline in this practice. Once this knowledge is lost, it is difficult to recover. The knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, and fire is not just a technique; it is also linked to day-to-day life, myths, and festivities.
Presenters:
-Eric Rigolot, Unité de recherche Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM), France
-Luis Alfonso Perez, Fire Service of the Asturias region, Spain
-Dario Coria, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Santiago del Estero, Argentina
The International Prescribed Fire Webinar Series is organized and supported by California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program, a collaboration between CalFire and the Safford Lab at the University of California-Davis; and the California Fire Science Consortium.
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.
This event will include workshops, field trips, and 3 full days of presentations, discussion groups, and networking opportunities around the theme, “Igniting Connections: Celebrating our fire family across generations, cultures, and disciplines.”
For more information and to register, visit https://afefirecongress.org/
The International Association of Wildland Fire is presenting the workshop in partnership with the Wildfire Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) and the Western, Southeast, and Northeast Regional Strategy Committees.
The Cohesive Strategy remains the solid framework by which to address and identify solutions for today’s complex wildland fire issues. In providing the pathway to change the negative trajectory of wildland fire, the Cohesive Strategy continues to evolve to meet the current and future challenges facing federal, tribal, state, local, and nongovernmental stakeholders.
The National Workshops were conceived to help stakeholders understand the Cohesive Strategy and see themselves as part of the solutions to wildland fire issues across the nation. The Workshops helped to build and strengthen relationships, support Cohesive Strategy activities, and facilitate Cohesive Strategy implementation.
Coastal Quest, in partnership with Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative, is proud to present the first California Wildfire Conference. This three-day exchange will bring together a diverse community of wildfire practitioners to focus on understanding, preventing, and recovering from wildfires.
For more information and to register, visit:
https://coastal-quest.idloom.events/californiawildfireconference
This workshop series will help landowners develop plans to improve and protect their forest lands in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The workshops will address management objectives and planning, forest restoration, fuels reduction, project development, permitting, and cost-share opportunities. Participants will connect with other landowners and learn how to collect information to develop their own management plans.
Recent destructive wildfires in northern California provide an opportunity to investigate how different factors influence home survival. We conducted an analysis of the 2018 Camp Fire, obtaining measurements from a randomly selected subset of homes in Paradise, to determine if nearby burning structures and/or nearby vegetation contributed to home survival, and whether new building codes in place since 2008 helped. The findings, corroborated by photographs taken of damaged but not destroyed homes, point to changes that could substantially improve outcomes.
This workshop series will help landowners develop plans to improve and protect their forest lands in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The workshops will address management objectives and planning, forest restoration, fuels reduction, project development, permitting, and cost-share opportunities. Participants will connect with other landowners and learn how to collect information to develop their own management plans.
Part of the Fire and Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public
Save the dates for the 2023 Range Management Advisory Committee Educational Series in Feb and March.
More information at https://spranch.calpoly.edu/RMAC
Save the date and more information to come!
Part of the Fire and Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public
The Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) conference addresses the WUI fire risk problems inherent to the built environment to support resilient and equitable communities.
Part of the Forest Ecology Random Lectures, open to the public
Next webinar with Dr. Phil McCormack has been postponed
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.
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.
Sign up for tour at https://forms.gle/qnAXghqaPxWWVSko8
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/
The annual Yosemite Hydroclimate Meeting is scheduled for Oct. 13 - 14, 2022. We are planning of an in-person meeting in the Yosemite Auditorium, but there is always a chance of virtual....hoping not. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to describe your work in Yosemite National Park as well as the greater Sierra Nevada region.
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 CA Fire Science Seminar will be a monthly presentation and discussion on emerging fire science topics from a diverse range of topics and speakers. Our next seminar will be August 16 on “Wildfire impacts on water infrastructure”
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 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 sponsored by Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP).
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