Assn. for Fire Ecology Regional Conference 2008 in Tucson Jan 28th-31st
The topic of this year’s Regional Conference is Fire in the Southwest: Integrating Fire into Management of Changing Ecosystems.
Diverse fire regimes and contentious management issues coupled with continuing severe drought have presented southwestern land managers and fire scientists with daunting challenges. Recent and predicted changes in climate, fuels, and fire behavior are yielding unique management problems with few obvious solutions.
The Fire in the Southwest: Integrating Fire into Management of Changing Ecosystems conference will provide a timely forum for information exchange of scientific information on the ecology and management of fire adapted and affected ecosystems in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, in a time of changing climate.
The ecosystems of interest include forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, interior chaparral and desert and semi-arid shrublands and grasslands.
A Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) session will examine the effectiveness of post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation treatments. Researchers will be presenting their findings on treatment effectiveness and the science behind BAER.
OVERVIEW
The opening plenary session will address “Southwest Ecosystems and Fire” and the closing plenary will focus on “Implications of Climate Change for Future Fire Management.” Concurrent sessions of invited and contributed papers will cover a broad range of topics related to the conference theme. (Abstract submissions are due by 5 p.m. PST, Oct. 19.)
Possible contributed session topics include:
Fire and Ecological Restoration
Fire and Wildlife
Fire, Insects and Pathology
Fuel Management/Landscape Decision Processes
Invasive Plants and Fire
Fire, Watershed and Soils/Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation
Fire Behavior and Characteristics
Fire Ecology
Fire Regimes/Fire History
Social Issues and Fire Management Implications
Wildland Fire Use/Appropriate Management Response
Lessons Learned from Large Southwest Fires
For more information: http://www.humboldt.edu/swfire/
Source: Geological Society and Humboldt State University
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