Resources and webinar recordings will be posted here as we progress through the series.
Principles of Fire-adapted Forests (Dec 7) RECORDING
- The missing fire: quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA (open access)
- Historical conditions in mixed-conifer forests on the eastern slopes of the northern Oregon Cascade Range, USA (abstract available)
- Fire Effects Information System (summaries of research on fire ecology, regimes, effects)
- Fire Regimes of Conifer Forests in the Blue Mountains (includes links to compilations for surrounding regions)
Assessing Forest and Range Wildfire Risk (Dec 21) RECORDING
- PNW 707: Planning and implementing cross-boundary, landscape-scale restoration and wildfire risk reduction projects.
- EM 9087: A land manager’s guide to for creating fire-resistant forests
- EM 9206: Competition and density in woodland stands
- WSU Publication on establishing variable plots
- DOGAMI Lidar
- Klamath-Lake Forest Health Partnership
- Grant County SWCD
- Upper John Day Valley Landscape Resiliency Project
Restoring Resilience in Dry Side Fire-adapted Forests (Jan 4) RECORDING
- Restoration of Dry Forests in Eastern Oregon: A Field Guide. Easy-to-read overview of restoration concepts.
- Forests and Woodlands: Protecting an Ecosystem. Overview of forest management considerations applicable to all forest types and scales of treatment.
- A Land Manager’s Guide for Creating Fire-resistant Forests. How thinning treatments effect fuel and fire behavior, and may lead to fire-resistance in forests.
- Ips Beetles Forest Health Fact Sheet. Essential information on management of pine slash to avoid post-treatment pine mortality. Very important consideration for fuels treatment/restoration of Dry Side forests.
- Management of Mixed-severity Fire Regime Forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. Review of science journal articles on this topic, acknowledging different schools of thought regarding management and restoration. (Note that this open access version of the article has some blacked out areas – probably a PDF conversion error. Best I can do for free access.)
Common Misconceptions About Fire in Dry Side Forests (Jan 18) RECORDING
- Storymap showing how modern fires are impacting California landscapes. While not specifically in our series’ geography the implications hold.
- The Missing Fire: Quantifying Human Exclusion of Wildfire in Pacific Northwest Forests, USA
- Through The Fire: Restoring Forest Resilience. Nature Conservancy video about effects of Bootleg Fire on Sycan Marsh preserve. Note the impact of restoration efforts.
- Climate Change, Fire Management, and Ecological Services in the Southwestern US. Review and synthesis focused on southwestern forests, but readily applies to Oregon’s Dry Side forests.
- Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Reslience of Dry Western United States Forests. Describes need for using forest treatments that are tailored to fire to achieve restoration objectives.
- Summary table of this webinar’s five “questions” and references supporting conclusions. From: Counteracting Wildfire Misinformation. Jones et al., 2022. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.
(Note: I’ve done my best to recommend resources that are “open access” to avoid any copyright issues. Apologies in advance if any of them won’t load for you – my university computer sometimes allows me to access things that are not freely available to the public.)
Wildlife friendly wildfire risk reduction (Feb 1) RECORDING
Prescribed fire considerations for private lands (Feb 15) RECORDING
- Fire Terminology
- Fire Effects Information System
- Oregon Extension Prescribed Fire Basics Modules
- Prescribed Burn Equipment – Oklahoma State Extension
- Firebreaks for Prescribed Burning – Oklahoma State Extension
- Prescribed Fire: Understanding Liabilities, Laws, and Risk – Oklahoma State University
- eFire Prescribed Fire Resources – NC State Extension
Post-fire restoration on private lands (Mar 1) RECORDING
- After a Wildfire StoryMap – OSU Extension
- Post-fire Resource Packet – OSU Extension
- After the Burn: Assessing and Managing Your Forestland After a Wildfire – U of Idaho Extension
- My Forest Burned: Now What? Woodland Fish and Wildlife Group
- Post Fire Tree Mortality Fact Sheet – ODF
- Field Guide for Hazard Tree Identification and Mitigation on Developed Sites in Oregon and Washington Forests – USDA USFS
- Post-fire Assessment of Tree Status and Marking Guidelines for Conifers in Oregon and Washington – USDA USFS
- Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
- Joint Fire Science Program
- Seedlot Selection Tool
- Salvage Logging After a Wildfire – U of Idaho Extension
- Assessing the Potential for Salvage Harvesting After a Fire – OSU Extension
- Timber Salvage After Wildfires – ODF
- Post-fir Regeneration (or lack thereof) Can Change Ecosystems: Science Review – Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
- Wildland Fire Severity Phot0-guide for Assessing Damage and Aiding Recovery of Trees and Forests Across the Northern Rockies – Montana State University Extension
Fire on agriculture and rangelands (Mar 15) RECORDING
- A geographic strategy for cross-jurisdictional, proactive management of invasive annual grasses in Oregon
- Rethinking the Focus on Forest Fires in Federal Wildland Fire Management: Landscape Patterns and Trends of Non-forest and Forest Burned Area
- Toward Integrated Fire Management to Promote Ecosystem Resilience
- A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome
- Harney County Wildfire Collaborative
- Agriculture Wildfire Behavior and Suppression online short course
- Wildfire Preparedness in Agriculture online short course
Resources for private forestland risk reduction and post-fire restoration (Apr 5) RECORDING
- Find your nearest Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Service Center
- NRCS – Oregon: How to Get Assistance
- Working with NRCS
- Find an Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) Forester
- ODF: Helping Landowners
- Find a WA DNR Forester
- Know Your Forest – Landowner Assistance
- My Blue Mountains Woodland
- Oregon Small Woodlands Association (OSWA)
- Northeast Oregon Small Woodlands Association (NEOSWA) – A Chapter of OSWA
- American Tree Farm System (ATFS)
Check out these recordings and resources from earlier webinar series
- Forests of Eastern Oregon. Ecology and forest health considerations for dry side forests.
- Managing Eastern Oregon Forests. Managing dry side forest types, and for specific objectives.
- Fire Aware Fire Prepared in the Blue Mountains. Reducing fire risk to your home and property.
- Eastern Oregon Forests, Winter/Spring 2022. A special topics series.
