Forest density preferences of homebuyers in the WUI
WHEN: November 16, 2016 at 12:00pm MST
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Ecology of Fuels
WHEN: November 17, 2016 at 11:00am MST
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Firewise's Wildland "Urban Legends"
WHEN: November 17, 2016 at 1:00pm MST
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Communications Under Fire: Understanding Capacity for Effective Communication During Large Scale Wildfires
WHEN: November 18, 2016 at 12:00pm MST
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Technical Review: Effects of Prescribed Fire on Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat in Selected Ecosystems of North America describes how prescribed fire is an important, widely applied management tool in North America used meet various objectives for maintaining or enhancing wildlife habitats.

Report: The Coalition for the Upper South Platte has released the first year report Fungal Degradation of the Woody By-products of Forest Management Activities which discusses a study on whether techniques of myco-remediation offer promise as a tool for forest management practitioners by allowing for the post treatment of these woody by-products.

Report: The Collaborative Watershed Assessment: A Profile of the Upper South Platte Partnership describes why the Upper South Platte Partnership in Colorado is an instructive example of how to prioritize and coordinate wildfire mitigation actions at a watershed scale across jurisdictions.

Plan: The Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy Actionable Science Plan outlines the actions to facilitate the process of funding and implementing research efforts and effectively communicating research results to the management community in order to achieve long-term protection, conservation, and restoration of the sagebrush ecosystem.

Article: Is Seeing Believing? Perceptions of Wildfire Risk Over Time presents findings from a two-year longitudinal data set from the Colorado Front Range in which study participants’ initial high levels of perceived probability and consequences of a wildfire did not change substantially after extreme wildfire events in the intervening years.

Article: Restoring forest structure and process stabilizes forest carbon in wildfire-prone southwestern ponderosa pine forests discusses how forest treatments alter the effects of stochastic wildfire events on the forest carbon balance.

Article: Review of the health effects of wildland fire smoke on wildland firefighters and the public identified smoke components that present the highest hazard potential, the mechanisms of toxicity, and identified the current gap in knowledge on the health impacts of wildland fire smoke exposure.

News Articles:

• Fire Science Digest Issue 23: Secretarial Order 3336 Science Priorities: The Role of Science Past, Present, and Future (Joint Fire Science Program)
• Using Science to Improve Wildfire Outcomes: An Interview with Steve Quarles (FAC Learning Network Blog)
• 1.8 million homes in 13 western states at extreme or high risk of wildfire damage: CoreLogic (Canadian Underwriter)