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.*  

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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 continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘Fitness and Wellness for Performance in Wildland Firefighting’

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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 continues their Workforce Resilience talk series with ‘Wildland Firefighters Mental Health and Well-being‘ Presented by a panel of 4 speakers.

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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.

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).