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Join us next month for the webinar "Fire & Fire Surrogate Studies and SageSTEP: The Benefits of Long-Term Fire Research." This event explores the results/benefits of two JFSP-funded long-term research projects. buff.ly/CGCOfVl

Read our latest research brief! This brief summarizes a case study on the redesign of federal prescribed fire training, utilizing an up-to-date understanding of adult learning to enhance training effectiveness. buff.ly/RxBBwQ5

Fire and Fuels Deep-Dive Science Sessions | Northern Rockies Fire Science Network

RMRS Forest Service Research and Development presents a series of Deep Dive Panel Discussions intended for fire, fuels, and land managers on critical topics associated with fuels and fire management. Register here:

How effective are landscape scale fuel treatments? Today we're revisiting this brief, published in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Read the full publication on our website: buff.ly/JFbHILd

This is going to be a great event, can't wait!

Early bird registration for "Adapting Together" closes December 31st, and the poster submission deadline is this Friday! Register now or visit the website to learn more: buff.ly/an21EfL

#FireCon2025 is officially underway! Thank you everyone who joined us at the welcome social last night and thank you to everyone attending and/or presenting at the concurrent sessions and plenary session today! We are looking forward to all the exciting things happening this week 🔥

Mark your calendars for a joint webinar, presented with the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, on November 18th at 12pm MST. Josh Beisel will present findings from his work studying Whitebark pine ecology within the treeline ecotone of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, MT/ID. buff.ly/Zj2y2bC

Join us and our fellow exchanges for a special session and fire circle at the International Fire Ecology & Management Congress in New Orleans! In addition to these presentations, we'll be at the exhibit hall with a booth all week. Learn more about our AFE plans here: buff.ly/DJdZLbo

Find our October 2025 Newsletter in your inboxes now! In this edition, details about an upcoming webinar we are jointly hosting with the Whitebark Pine Foundation on November 18th. Read the newsletter here: buff.ly/rajStDX

September newsletter is out now! Find our newly published 2024 @firescience.gov Field Trip Summary, recent research briefs, and more. Read it or subscribe here: buff.ly/wkRWjsG

Women in Wildland Fire Training available October 23–26th, at Lubrecht Experimental Forest (MT). Applications are due by September 24th. This training is for those new to wildland fire careers, offering mentorship, and foundational skills in an inclusive environment. Learn more: buff.ly/RTpajjz

Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia, Canada Warming and drying conditions are driving increases in wildfire size and annual area burned across the forests of British Columbia, Canada. The impact of increasing fire activity on these forests rem...

Important new paper by Luke Collins and colleagues: "Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia [BC], Canada"

Key findings:
1. Fires in BC have increased in size from 1986-2021
2. Bigger fires have larger patches of high-severity fire

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Prescribed fire is an important tool for management of many ecosystems, but often there is a gap between desired and actual useage. We spoke to individuals representing three different perspectives on this issue, exploring the barriers to implementing prescribed fire in the region. buff.ly/KzxQyWO

Did you know there are nine experimental forests and demonstration areas within the Northern Rockies region? Explore our Experimental Forest webpage to learn more about each of these nine areas. buff.ly/R5T9ZVf

🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions!

We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Catch the latest edition of the TK & Fire Newsletter, featuring the work of Monroe Fox. Read the July edition and subscribe to future updates on our website. buff.ly/87YqxYy

Check out the Effects of Repeated Fire Hot Topic page. Understanding the potential impacts of previous fires on the characteristics of subsequent fires is important in informing land management decisions, developing fuel management strategies, and allocating fire-fighting resources. buff.ly/Pvm77rL

smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized.   By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...

Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits.
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...

Prescribed fires reduced subsequent 2020 wildfire burn severity by -16% in the western US. Rx fire treatments led to a net reduction of -14% in smoke emissions, as sum from treatment-plus-subsequent-wildfire.

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Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".

Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!

Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in The Forest Service's new chief recently published a letter that called for wildfires to be suppressed "as swiftly as possible." That may sound prudent to many, but it raised eyebrows among some who st...

Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social w/ @boisestatepublicradio.org - www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

July newsletter is in your inbox! This month's edition includes a new video from JFSP explaining the Fire Science Exchange Network - and more! Watch the video here: buff.ly/z8hslSv

The JFSP Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcements are now open! Proposals are due Sept. 18th. If you are applying to do research in the Northern Rockies we strongly encourage you to reach out to us for a letter of support via this link: buff.ly/b6hXdPj

So thankful for all the great conversations that were had this week, and a big shoutout to @intertribal-tc.bsky.social for putting on this symposium and to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation for being fantastic hosts!

So excited for these finals and can't wait until we get to see our Seattle team on the ice too!

Don't forget to register for our webinars on the Behave7 fire modeling system this week! We will discuss how Behave v7 differs from BehavePlus v6. These webinars are aimed at different users so check the details to see which is best suited for you. Register here: buff.ly/gC5Brzv