WFFRC
WEBINARS
Wildfire in the West: Learning from the past, navigating the future
In the last few decades, the west has experienced longer fire seasons with more area burned by more severe wildfires. Wildfires appear to be spreading faster and creating more destruction with significant consequences to people and communities. Yet at the same time, we live intermixed with species and ecosystems that depend on fire to survive and thrive. The removal of fire from these ecosystems is the root cause of the wildfire crisis facing the west today. This webinar, led by Crystal Raymond, WFFRC's Deputy Director of Policy and Management discusses the confounding causes of the wildfire crisis and how climate change adds fuel to the crisis.
The webinar was hosted by the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington
Creating a burn severity atlas across Western US forests
Burn severity is key to understanding the environmental impacts of wildfires. The Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative’s Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Brian Harvey of the University of Washington, and his lab group are developing an atlas of multiple on-the-ground burn severity metrics across forests of the western United States. This atlas is calibrated using a network of more than 1,000 field plots with quantitative burn severity measurements. In this webinar, Dr. Michele S. Buonanduci and Dr. Harvey present new results from this atlas with a focus on applications in the Western US.
The webinar was co-hosted by the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, the Northwest Fire Science Consortium and
the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.