Past Events

This event is being hosted by the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA), Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC), The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, Mojave Desert Land Trust (MDLT), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

In this talk, researchers Scott Abella and Lindsay Chiquoine with the University of Nevada Las Vegas will present new papers and results from ongoing collaborative projects to advance habitat restoration and conservation management in the Mojave Desert. Projects include a range of innovative techniques from abiotic restoration treatments to native plant materials development and field outplanting studies.

The Southern California Montane Forest Conservation Strategy team is hosting a Zoom webinar on September 24, 1pm - 2:30pm to provide an overview of the strategy, the tools and products that have been produced, and how those products can help practitioners and community members enhance resilience in our region's forests.

The California Fire Science Coalition and the Society of American Foresters invite you to join us for Southern California Oak Woodlands: Fire, Change, and Collaborative Stewardship on May 13, 2026 at Quail Hill Community Center in Irvine, CA from 9 - 3 PM.

Join us for the 4th annual Fish & Fire Workshop, hosted as part of the 43rd annual Salmonid Restoration Conference! This workshop builds on a growing body of interest and momentum around the ecological, cultural, and spatial intersections of fish and fire.

Wildfires can be a powerful regenerative force for nature. However, modern wildfires in frequent fire forests across the Western U.S. have become uncharacteristically severe, largely due to climate change and more than a century of fire suppression.

The Common Ground: Prescribed Fire, Vineyards and Community Resilience event, hosted by the Climate & Wildfire Institute and CAL FIRE on April 14, 2026, in Napa, California brought together vintners, grape growers, prescribed fire practitioners, researchers, local organizations, and public agencies to advance open dialogue around the role of prescribed fire in winegrowing regions.

Native people have successfully stewarded the land for thousands and thousands of years pre-contact. This presentation will delve into fire's role in ecosystem function. Fire is meant to be part of the ecosystem and its absence has had devastating effects on the environment.

The goal of this webinar is to take an in‑depth look at two of the most influential long‑term fire research efforts supported by the Joint Fire Science Program: the Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Study and the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP).

In the Western United States, wildfire has become seasonal, altering ecosystems and setting records for acreages burned. For millennia, Tribes around the world engaged in fire stewardship, or cultural burns, as eco-cultural land tending responsibilities. However, removal of Indigenous Peoples and persistent “no burn” fire suppressive policies have contributed to the current wildfire predicament.