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Assessing Metrics of Landscape Restoration Success in CFLRP Projects

Click here to read the research from the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University: “The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) provided an opportunity to examine the challenges and success of collaborative monitoring to understand the effects of forest restoration at a landscape scale.”
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A Double Whammy: Climate Change and Stand-Replacing Wildfires

From Rocky Mountain Research Station: “In the Intermountain region of the Western United States, most forested landscapes are fire prone and adapted to a semiarid climate. With the severity of wildfires increasing as a result of excessive fuels, land managers are concerned about forest converting to non-forest types such as shrubland or grassland. “And then…
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Shifting Winds in Fire Management: California has two fire problems, and they’re very different

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WEBINAR: Answering Questions about the Appropriateness of Woody Vegetation Treatments

From Utah State University Forestry Extension YouTube Channel: LEARN AT LUNCH WEBINAR: Answering Questions about the Appropriateness of Woody Vegetation Treatments Want more webinars? Visit the archive at USU’s website.
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New Publication: Potential Operational Delineations and Northern New Mexico’s 2019 Fire Season

From Colorado Forest Restoration Institute: Land managers in fire-adapted ecosystems must consider a variety of dynamic and interrelated ecological and societal processes. This is especially true for decisions related to wildfire management, where decision-making is complicated by the compartmentalized nature of land and fire management, and general uncertainty associated with fire weather. The inherently hazardous…
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How can the NRCS get more prescribed fire on the ground?

How can the NRCS get more prescribed fire on the ground? Check out the full pdf technical report here.
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New Study: Are sage grouse fine-scale specialists or shrub-steppe generalists?

From the Sage Grouse Initiative: A new paper from University of Montana scientists reinforces need to address big persistent threats facing sagebrush rangelands and to avoid sweating the small stuff. The Wildlife Society released an article summarizing the paper which contains a link to the open access paper. Working Lands for Wildlife recently sat down…
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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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