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SUMMARY:Eastern U.S. Old Growth and Prescribed Fire
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Jacob Fraser\, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station \nDate: November 4\, 2025\, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (central time) \nRegister  here (required): https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/e5RJYp9qRwy58_gwhvUBtA
URL:https://firenetworks.org/event/eastern-u-s-old-growth-and-prescribed-fire/
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SUMMARY:Changing Large Wildfire Regime Dynamics in the Eastern United States
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Victoria Donovan\, University of Florida \nDate: October 7\, 2025 1:00 – 2:00 PM (central time) \nRegister here (required): https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/mvH72CZlS3y-IJq2SXO4yQ  \n**This webinar is hosted in partnership with the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists and the Southern Fire Exchange** \nWebinar abstract:  Dr. Donovan will provide a summary of her lab’s ongoing research investigations into changes in large (>200 ha) wildfire activity across multiple scales in the eastern U.S. and the interacting factors affecting wildfire risk. Specifically\, we found shifting wildfire regime characteristics across south and central ecoregions in the east that include increasing wildfire number\, size\, and annual occurrence\, along with changes in wildfire seasonality.  Just under half of all wildfires burned within the wildland-urban interface (WUI)\, where the greatest risk to human life and property from wildfires exists. Increases in large wildfire are largely occurring outside the WUI\, though these wildfires tend to be closer to the WUI than expected at random. We find factors such as suppression potential\, weather conditions\, and patterns in woody cover influence the WUI-wildfire dynamic\, but relationships vary regionally. We also identified long-term increases in woody cover across eastern ecoregions\, linking higher levels of woody cover to heightened wildfire risk in multiple locations. Further investigations have found that woody cover interactions with short-term drought strongly predict large wildfire occurrence across numerous eastern ecoregions. While further research into the drivers of changing large wildfire patterns is needed\, we suggest the strategic application of fuels management along with the development of fire-resistant homes and buildings to enhance community resilience to wildfire in the east.
URL:https://firenetworks.org/event/changing-large-wildfire-regime-dynamics-in-the-eastern-united-states/
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SUMMARY:Prescribed Fire and Timber Quality
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Michael Saunders\, Purdue University \nDate: January 23\, 2024\, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (central time) \nRegister here (required): https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOGrpj0vHNbO-DFGXzqk5ciWYRNF3OQj
URL:https://firenetworks.org/event/prescribed-fire-and-timber-quality/
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SUMMARY:Forests\, Fires\, and Faucets: How a drinking water utility uses forest management as a key source water protection strategy
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Raven Lawson (Watershed Protection Manager) and Bryan Rupar (Land Conservation Coordinator)\, Central Arkansas Water \nDate: December 19\, 2023\, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (central time) \nRegister here (required): https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElf-CqqzkiE9GJ16wfsUapL49i4Sa3JPQg  \nCentral Arkansas Water’s (CAW) Watershed Protection Program (Program) has received international recognition as a leader of innovative approaches to managing natural resources for the purpose of drinking water protection. The Program’s goals are to protect\, restore\, and enhance the natural watershed environment of their two water sources through a variety of pollution prevention\, watershed\, and source water protection approaches; part of an overall utility strategy to maintain and enhance ecological and community sustainability. \nThis webinar will focus on the Program’s fifteen-year history and their approach to watershed-scale conservation through acquisition and forested land management practices. The presentation will showcase how active forest management plays a role in the protection of drinking water sources and will highlight how CAW’s Program has built internal and external capacity to take their acres of forests treated with prescribed fire from a decades-long yearly average of about 350 acres to over 2\,500 acres\, while also covering the correlation of ecological timber thinning and unpaved roads management to drinking water quality.
URL:https://firenetworks.org/event/forests-fires-and-faucets-how-a-drinking-water-utility-uses-forest-management-as-a-key-source-water-protection-strategy/
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