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Join CSU’s Forest & Rangeland Stewardship free seminar series!

March 26th Jen Kovecses – Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed Rob Addington – The Nature Conservancy Title: Using prescribed fire to restore & manage Front Range Forests: Lessons learned from the Elk Fire April 2nd John Bradford – U.S. Geological Survey Title: Assessing and applying dryland drought dynamics to inform resource management April 9th…
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Friday Flash E-news : Modeling long-term effects of fuel treatments on fuel loads and fire regimes

Friday Flash: Modeling long-term effects of fuel treatments on fuel loads and fire regimes
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Pinyon-Juniper systems: Factsheets on ecology, history, ecohydrology and management

Click here for factsheets on: The ecology, history, ecohydrology, and management of pinyon and juniper woodlands in the Great Basin and Northern Colorado Plateau of the western United States.
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Intraspecific Variation in Surface Water Uptake in a Perennial Desert Shrub

Intraspecific Variation in Surface Water Uptake in a Perennial Desert Shrub Zaiats, A., Lazarus, B.E., Germino, M.J., Serpe, M., Richardson, B., Buerki, S., Caughlin, T., 2020, Intraspecific variation in surface water uptake in a perennial desert shrub: Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13546 Contact: Matthew Germino, FRESC, 208-426-3353, mgermino@usgs.gov
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Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

O’Connor, R.C., Germino, M.J., Barnard, D.M., Andrews, C.M., Bradford, J.B., Pilliod, D.S., Arkle, R.S., Shriver, R.K., 2020, Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts: Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab79e4 Moisture deficit affects ecological processes and land management interventions, such as restoration of native vegetation. However, there is little guidance on how to determine when water…
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Elk Fire: Department of Fire Prevention and Control’s review

See Department of Fire Prevention and Control’s Elk Fire review on their website.
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NEW WEBINAR – Lunch and Learn: Boundary-Spanning for Collective Action: Managing Wildfire Risk in the West

Watch webinar here Speakers: 1) Emily Jane Davis, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, OSU 2) Tony Cheng, Director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute & Professor with an Extension appointment, CSU 3) Darren McAvoy, Extension Assistant Professor of Forestry, USU & Fellow of the Society of American Foresters Co-sponsored by Oregon State University, Colorado State…
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VIDEO: Studying Wildfire Using Drones – Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) – Summer 2019

Watch on YouTube. A team of five DRI researchers, along with nearly 35 other scientists, embarked on a unique kind of camping trip this June. The group spent several days and nights in a remote area of central Utah’s Fishlake National Forest to do something that’s never been done before: to light 2000 acres of…
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Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) – video overview

The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) is a multi-agency effort to provide advanced measurements necessary to evaluate and advance operationally-used fire and smoke modeling systems and their underlying scientific models. The field campaign will be conducted on large operational prescribed fires targeting heavy fuel loads and burned to produce high-intensity fires with developed…
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Sagebrush steppe habitat flashcards – great teaching tool for kids!

You’ll find plants, the animals that eat the plants, the animals that eat those animals, and then the clean-up crews that recycle the living matter to make it available to start the cycle again. Click here to download. Visit the Audobon Rockies website for more free activities, lesson plans, and toolkits for connecting youth to…
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