Happy August from NWFSC

• Don't miss our new infographic on the importance of weed management for resilient forest landscapes, created in partnership with the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange and with much input from partners in the region. 
• Register for our upcoming webinar on September 15th, which will present preliminary results of a survey of westside OR and WA family forest owners, and ask participants to help guide analysis stages of the project by highlighting what survey data they want to know more about. With the anniversary this weekend of the Labor Day Fires in 2020, the results provide increasing insight on how westside family forest landowners are managing their forests and their concerns about wildfire with climate change expectations. We hope to see you there! 
• We are finalizing topics and dates for a fall Equity & Environmental Justice in Wildfire webinar series and are so excited to share updates with you in the coming month. 

• Burke et al., Nature Hum. Behavior: Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke
• Busby & Holz, Front. For. Glob. Change: Interactions Between Fire Refugia and Climate-Environment Conditions Determine Mesic Subalpine Forest Recovery After Large and Severe Wildfires
• Gang, Jia & Herniter, Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation
• Kearns et al., Fire: The Construction of Probabilistic Wildfire Risk Estimates for Individual Real Estate Parcels for the Contiguous United States
• Li et al., Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.: Augmentation of WRF-Hydro to simulate overland-flow- and streamflow-generated debris flow susceptibility in burn scars
• Li, Angerer & Wu, Sci. Total Env.: The impacts of wildfires of different burn severities on vegetation structure across the western United States rangelands
• Mahood et al., Nature Sci. Data: Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001–2021). (This describes/presents an open-source data set for a collection of fire event perimeter datasets for every country on the globe created using the FIREDpy software.)
• Shrestha et al., Agr. For. Met.: Wildfire controls on land surface properties in mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forests of Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, Western US
• Shuman et al., PNAS Nexus: Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene
• Thomas et al., Plos One: A burning issue: Reviewing the socio-demographic and environmental justice aspects of the wildfire literature
• Thompson et al., Fire Ecol.: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

• Brady et al., Intl. J. Wildland Fire: How interactions between wildfire and seasonal soil moisture fluxes drive nitrogen cycling in Northern Sierra Nevada forests
• Tanner, Lupi, & Garnache, Intl. J. Wildland Fire: Estimating visitor preferences for recreation sites in wildfire prone areas

• Evidence for Widespread Changes in the Structure, Composition, and Fire Regimes of Western North American Forest Landscapes: Northern Arizona University Working Paper #45
• Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network: New Partner Report: Shared Responsibility for Fire Resilience
• Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity: MTBS Viewer: 20 Years of Data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Program
• World Resources Institute: New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
• United Nations News: Wildfire and floods don’t need to turn into disasters: UN risk report

• IF YOU MISSED IT: Last month we shared Season 2 of The Fire Story Podcast that we help create! Come along with this season's producers on a journey through home building, community resiliency, & policymaking in the face of fire. Many thanks to partners at UO Ecosystem Workforce Program and UO Center for Science Communication Research.Climate change and wildfires in western North American forests: a review of ecological departures and adaptation strategies.  CA Fire Science Consortium. Sept 9, 11a-12p PDT
• NOAA Three-Minute Thesis Webinar on Drought. Sept 9, 2-3pm EDT
• Several new & upcoming Canada Wildfire Webinars 
• Office Hours with The Nature Conservancy's LANDFIRE Team
• Recording: ICYMI-- our webinar at the end of last month was recorded: Developing a Social Vulnerability Index for Wildfire Risk in Oregon
• Recording: SW Fire Science Consortium: Collective Action for Wildfire Risk Reduction across Land Ownerships in the West
• Recordings: Power and Indigeneity webinar series
• Recorded: SW Fire Science Consortium: Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management
• Recording: Reimagining Caring, Just, and Equitable Futures in a Fiery World. Natural Hazards Center Plenary Session. 
• New Podcast episodes:
  • Life with Fire podcast was created to explore the ways humans interact with fire, while seeking solutions for how we can better coexist with it in the future. 2 new episodes in August. 

• 2022 Natural Areas Conference. Sept. 6-9; Duluth, MN. 
• Society for Ecological Restoration NW Annual Meeting. Sept. 14; virtual. 
• 2022 Joint Annual meeting: Reforestation pipeline in the western US. 9/27-29; Missoula, MT
• Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management.  Oct. 4-7; Florence, Italy.
• Society for Range Management PNW Section Annual Meeting and Tour. Oct. 5-7; Cheney, WA. 
• 2022 Tribal Exchange Network Conference. Oct. 18-20; Flagstaff, AZ & Online
• IAWF Wildland Fire Canada Conference. Oct. 31-Nov. 4; Edmonton, Canada
• SageCon Annual Summit. Nov. 2-3; Burns, OR
• IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research & 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit. Nov. 11-18; Coimbra, Portugal. 
• Fifth National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop. Nov. 14-18; Asheville, NC. 
• Native Seed Conference. March 27-30, 2023; Washington, DC. 
• Wildland Urban Interface Conference. March 28-30, 2023; Reno, NV
• CO Wildland Fire Conference-April 11-14, 2023; Fort Collins, CO
• Anytime:  How to use IFTDSS for Burn Plans. 
• Wildfire Preparedness for Agricultural Producers and Rural Landowners. Virtual and on demand course.

• NEW FUNDING PROGRAM: Community Wildfire Defense Grants: The CWDG Program is intended to help at-risk local communities & Tribes plan and reduce wildfire risk. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Learning Network has created a very helpful primer to help communities navigate the grant program. 
• USDA NRCS: USDA to Invest $15 Million in Innovative Projects for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Urban Agriculture and Addressing Invasive Species

• University of Oregon Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments: Research Assistant/Associate/Postdoc
• Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition: Coalition Director
• Sustainable Northwest: Forest Program Director
• Fire Adapted Colorado: Training Specialist
• University of Oregon Environmental Studies: two open rank climate change mitigation and adaptation openings, interdisciplinary social & natural science: Natural Science; Social Science

• White House Fact Sheet: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Continues Efforts to Address Growing Wildfire Threat
• WA Dept of Health: Steps you can take now to prepare for wildfire smoke
• NPR: 
  • Why suppressing wildfires may be making the Western fire crisis worse
  • California wildfires prompt evacuations as a heat wave bakes the West
• OPB: 
  • As wildfires and air quality worsen in Klamath Basin, scientists expand efforts to study the impact on human health
  • Oregon’s land use agency recommends ways to mitigate wildfire risk
  • Program to regenerate Oregon forests after 2020 wildfires to receive big boost from USDA
  • Oregon officials say this year they’re so far reining in wildfires much quicker than previous years
  • Swamped by public outcry, Oregon withdraws controversial wildfire risk map
• Central OR Daily: Remote Oregon wildfire cameras become key to finding new smokes quickly
• Fast Company
  • Featuring, Talent, OR: After a devastating wildfire, this tiny Oregon town built back greener
  • How to track wildfires in California, Oregon, and across the U.S. with Esri’s new mapping tool
• Grist: Wildfire Smoke Is Choking Indigenous Communities
• Oregon Live: Victims of Oregon’s historic wildfires face tough tradeoffs: To rebuild or leave?
• Spokesman Review: Fires, wildlife interactions, changed habitats: As more people move into wildland urban interface, the consequences grow
• WY Public Radio: Western wildfires are increasingly destroying structures, analysis shows