Past Events

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.

California’s Sierra Nevada forests are a stage upon which the interacting effects of historic management and anthropogenically-driven climate change are playing out in real time. A vast body of literature provides evidence that these forests are out of character and poised for abrupt ecological changes under the status quo.

Urban fires pose a persistent hazard in Japanese urban areas. To address this, various fire spread models have been developed, with many relying on empirical formulations. However, to enhance model generality, a shift towards physics-based formulations is explored.

CAL FIRE, Berkeley Forests, and the California Fire Science Consortium are sponsoring an afternoon workshop at the 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress to highlight ongoing fire-related research programs in California.

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. 

San Bernardino County, Online September 6 - November 1, 2023 and in-person Saturday, September 23rd. Registration now open!

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: 

Solano - Sacramento Counties, Online July 18 - September 12, 2023 and in-person Saturday, August 5th in Solano County. Registration now open!

Title: Why do houses burn in wildfires and what can we do about it?Presenters: Dr. Eric Knapp (USFS) and Yana Valachovic (UCANR) 

FRID statistics have been used for decades to help managers and scientists understand the ecological consequences of changing fire frequencies. The Forest Service Region 5 Ecology Program worked with UC-Davis to build a spatial FRID data layer that compiles information about fire return intervals for major vegetation types on the 18 National Forests in California and adjacent land jurisdictions.