This talk will share key lessons from the pilot and discuss how the 3P approach can strengthen forest health planning by grounding strategies in community engagement. Future pilots will refine the framework and expand its application across landscapes.
Southwest Georgia and northwest Florida represent the rekindling of prescribed fire culture in America, cast back on the landscape by Herbert Stoddard and the newly fledged field of wildlife biology. These new managers, researchers, and conservation advocates sought to restore a natural and essential process in an almost wholly anthropogenically changed landscape.
Join the California Fire Science Consortium for weekly virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science topics from a range of speakers.
In this session, we’ll hear from Dr. Frank Lake, Ryan Reed, and Monique Wynecoop about how Tribes are using cultural and prescribed fire as vital land management tools in California and Washington. Speakers will share their experiences applying cultural fire on the ground, discuss benefits to ecosystems and communities, and reflect on lessons learned amid increasingly catastrophic wildfire seasons.
The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery.
The 2020 Creek Fire burned ~380,000 acres in California's Sierra Nevada, destroying over 850 of 3,002 structures. Using pre-fire lidar data, Hannah Redford examined how near-structure fuel configurations influenced housing loss/survival across three fire stages.
The 4th International Smoke Symposium will take place at the Leigh Perkins Conservation Education Center in Tallahassee, Florida from March 23 to 27, 2026.
WUI 2026: Fighting Wildfire In a Changing World will be held March 24-26, 2026 in Reno, Nevada.
Join this webinar from the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and hear from Michelle Homann - a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Integrative Biology who studies the effect of management decisions on restored tallgrass prairie plant communities.
Senior Spatial Ecologist Sarah Hagen will introduce the new Fire Needs Assessment website and show how it helps users understand landscape conditions and identify where fire is needed to support ecological health. The session covers what an FNA is, how it connects historical ecosystems, current vegetation, and fire regimes, and how anyone can explore fire needs using the site and its downloadable tools.
The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery.
Join SAFE for SAFE Connections March with Dr. Victoria Donovan! SAFE Connections March will take place Friday, March 27 at 1pm PT/4pm ET.
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). These landmark studies provide rare, decades‑long insights into how different fuel treatments and fire management strategies shape ecosystem resilience, fuel dynamics, vegetation structure, and wildlife habitat.
The 2026 After the Flames Conference and Workshop will take place April 6-9, 2026 in Cle Elum, Washington.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit 2026 will be held April 14-17, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.
The 2026 Colorado Wildland Fire Conference will take place in Fort Collins on April 15-16, 2026.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
Students will share their work via webinar and connect with the fire and forestry community to establish productive working relationships.
The 8th International Fire Behaviour and Fuels Conference will take place April 28-May 1, 2026 in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals 15th Biennial Conference will take place May 12-15, 2026 in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Western Collaborative Conservation Network Confluence 2026 will be held May 19-21, 2026 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The 8th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference will take place June 2-4, 2026 in Bloomington, Indiana.
The International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) conference emphasizes local to global resource management issues, environmental issues, collaborative stakeholder processes, and the social impacts of natural resource management. It is also a venue for presenting cutting-edge research and engaging in productive discussions focused on the sustainable management of natural resources.
The North American Forest Ecology Workshop will take place June 23-26, 2026 in Missoula, Montana.
The 2026 North American Congress for Conservation & Restoration will take place July 12-16, 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wildland Fire Canada Conference 2026 and Canadian Smoke Forum will take place October 19-23, 2026 in Sasktoon, Saskatchewan.
The 10th International Conference on Forest Fire Research will take place in Coimbra, Portugal from October 31-November 6, 2026.
Join the California Fire Science Consortium for weekly virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science topics from a range of speakers.
Join experts for a practical overview of tools and strategies to guide reforestation in Colorado, from seed to outplanting. Learn about tools to inform seed transfer, the target seedling concept, and average rates of planting survival over the past 30 years in Colorado.
This is a webinar presented by Forest Service Research and Development, organized by the Rocky Mountain Research Station. It is one of five webinar sessions in a series about Fire Science You Can Use.
Forest Service Research and Development is proud to announce an upcoming series of virtual Deep Dive Panel Discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on critical topics associated with fuels and fire management.
This workshop, hosted by Southern Fire Exchange and the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, will provide landowners and fire professionals with scientific presentations, field demonstrations, and planning tools to help assess duff conditions, plan effective burns, and protect legacy and economically important trees
This presentation will explore how the stories encoded in tree rings can be used to better understand how fire in the Great Lakes has shaped forests and been influenced by direct indigenous stewardship.
Oregon State University, the Fire Adapted Communities Network, and other partners are holding a Fire Adaptation Workshop March 4-6, 2026 in Stevenson, Washington.
This is a webinar presented by Forest Service Research and Development, organized by the Rocky Mountain Research Station. It is one of five webinar sessions in a series about Fire Science You Can Use.
Join the Great Plains Fire Science Exchange and the Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium on Tuesday, March 3 at 2:30pm ET for a webinar on prescribed fire and pollinators in grasslands!
Students will have 15 mins each to present their research on three topics from the Desert Research Institute’s Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science (HDRFS) project, followed by discussion. The topics and presenters are:
Air quality and wildfire smoke - Bianca Martinez This talk shares results from experimental burning of Great Basin vegetation, including the type and amount of air pollutants released, and combustion conditions. The findings of this research are relevant to prescribed fire and fuel treatment planning, and improving smoke management and public warnings.
Technology for real-time monitoring over large distances - Jehren Boehm This work focuses real-time monitoring of air, snow, and soil conditions with greater spatial resolution and lower cost. By leveraging existing fire camera networks with robust power systems and reliable internet connectivity, widely distributed low-cost wireless sensors can fill knowledge gaps that would otherwise rely on modeling.
Post-fire soils and water repellency - Conor Croskery This research is focused on determining if water repellent soils are present in sagebrush ecosystems before wildfire, how the distribution of these soils changes after fire, and if there is a relationship between how much water can be stored in the soil if water repellent soils are present after fire.
Join SAFE for SAFE Connections February with Dr. Ashley Grupenhoff! SAFE Connections February will take place Thursday, February 26 at 1pm PT/4pm ET.
Join the California Fire Science Consortium for weekly virtual presentations and discussions on emerging fire science topics from a range of speakers.
The Hot-Dry-Windy Index webinar is a joint venture from the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange (NAFSE) and the Lake States Fire Science Consortium (LSFSC), two members of the Joint Fire Science Program's Fire Science Exchange Network.
Join the Southwest, Southern Rockies, and Great Basin region Fire Exchanges for an introduction to tools that help managers predict post-fire outcomes to make better decisions about where and when to treat for fire risk - and show how Colorado Plateau landscapes have changed over time.
Register once and join all year! LANDFIRE Office Hour Series: 2026
This is a webinar presented by Forest Service Research and Development, organized by the Rocky Mountain Research Station. It is one of five webinar sessions in a series about Fire Science You Can Use.
Embers of Insight is a webinar series jointly hosted by the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange in Canada and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange in the United States
In this webinar, Dr. Michele S. Buonanduci and Dr. Harvey will present new results from this western US atlas with a focus on applications in the US Northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Join this first webinar co-hosted by the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, the Northwest Fire Science Consortium and the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.
This workshop, hosted by Southern Fire Exchange the Consortium of Applachian Fire Managers and Scientists, will provide landowners and fire professionals with scientific presentations, field demonstrations, and planning tools to help assess duff conditions, plan effective burns, and protect legacy and economically important trees. This workshop will facilitate and increased understanding of duff fire management and mitigation practices.
This webinar shares key findings from Matt Behrens’ masters thesis research at Denali National Park & Preserve showing that soil heating beneath burn piles is greater in fall than in spring, and that deeper soil organic layers dampen heating and burn depth, shaping below ground soil heating impacts.
The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery.
Listen to this Fueling Collaboration panel discussion on Thursday, February 19 at 11am ET.
This is a webinar presented by Forest Service Research and Development, organized by the Rocky Mountain Research Station. It is one of five webinar sessions in a series about Fire Science You Can Use.
Embers of Insight is a webinar series jointly hosted by the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange in Canada and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange in the United States
Get updates from NOAA about new data, satellite instrument development progress, various applications of satellite data for wildfire detection and monitoring, and provide feedback on your changing needs and challenges.
Forest Service Research and Development is proud to announce an upcoming series of virtual Deep Dive Panel Discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on critical topics associated with fuels and fire management.
Sean Kelly, SDSU Extension Range Management Field Specialist, will provide an overview of the socioeconomic threats of woody encroachment to ranches and the importance of landowner-led prescribed burn associations in South Dakota, which follow a national model and trend towards landowner-led prescribed fire.
The FFERAL lecture series returns in early 2026 with an exciting lineup of presenters. Join us in person at UC Davis or virtually via Zoom.
This presentation from the Forest Stewards Guild and SW Fire Science Consortium will cover what is included in the current bill, how it has changed since early 2025, what recommendations from The Report of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission and The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy have been incorporated, and what we might expect to happen next.
The sixth 2025-2026 Indigenous Learning Forum will take place February 12, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET on Zoom. This talk will be given in English with Spanish translation.
AFE’s journal, Fire Ecology, publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire. Freely access journal articles and get details about submitting a manuscript.
