Last in 2016 BpS Webinar Series on Tuesday
10 AM PST (1 ET)
From Pixels to Landscapes: Leveraging LANDFIRE for Land Management
LANDFIRE products have become the toolbox for large landscape management, way beyond obvious applications to do with fire and fuels. From mapping arbuscular fungi to modeling scary cryptic zooid habitat, from tracking grizzly bears to protecting butterflies, from developing full-scale state forest assessments to looking at climate disturbance, LANDFIRE covers a lot of territory. In this presentation Randy Swaty will tour some of the most used LANDFIRE datasets, share ideas for use in your work and explore how others have leveraged these products for natural resource management. Webinar presenter is Randy Swaty, LANDFIRE Fire Ecologist.
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2:30 ET (12:30 MT)
Biophysical Settings Review in the Great Basin: What it is. How it works. Why it matters.
All ecosystems are dynamic and changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Between 2005-2009, in collaboration with hundreds of colleagues, LANDFIRE produced more than 1,000 unique pre-European state-and-transitions models and descriptions, one for every major ecosystem (called Biophysical Settings or BpS) mapped by the Program. The BpS models and descriptions have been used in many land management applications from setting reference conditions and measuring change to modeling alternative management scenarios.
LANDFIRE launched the current BpS Review project to ask for expert assistance in bringing the models and descriptions up-to-date. Of particular interest to individuals working in the Great Basin or in sagebrush habitats across the West is the big sage “Macro Review.” The Macro Review provides an opportunity to look at how. The Intermountain Basin Big Sagebrush Shrubland and Intermountain Basin Big Sagebrush Steppe ecosystems function across their entire range. These systems cover over 90 million acres in the western U.S. and provide critical habitat for the greater sage-grouse. Improving the models helps LANDFIRE more accurately map fire regimes and vegetation departure, and it enables us to provide a more current and robust product for use in land management planning activities.
This webinar, led by LANDFIRE Fire Ecologist Kori Blankenship, will provide an introduction to LANDFIRE BpS models and invite your participation in the current BpS review opportunities.
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