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The Joint Fire Science Program's 2017 Funding Opportunity Notices (FON) for seven categories of research, including Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Awards, are open through November 17, 2016. Please go to the link below to view details.

This poster presents research on the effectiveness of aerial seeding conducted on private lands by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) following the Trigo Wildfire of April 2008, which burned 13,709 acres of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer in the Manzano Mountains of central New Mexico. The general objectives of this research were to: - determine the effects of fire severity on the recovery of forest understory vegetative communities and determine how different plant species respond to fire severity; - determine the response of intentionally seeded grass species used in restoration efforts by the NRCS (annual rye grass, Lolium multiflorum, and tall wheat grass, Thinopyrum ponticum) to high and low fire severity; and - evaluate the relative recovery responses of native and exotic plant species to fire severity.

Plan to reintroduce Gunnison's Prairie Dog reintroduction at the Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge.

Abstract. John T. Abatzouglou and A. Park Williams. Paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 113 no. 42

Presentation to NM Forest and Watershed Management Coordinating Group, January 13, 2017

Video presentations from the conference held October 18-19, 2016 at Utah State University. As climate changes, forests are being impacted by severe drought, longer fire seasons, and impressive insect epidemics. New approaches to landscape restoration are needed to cope with these disturbances. The 2016 Restoring the West Conference offered presentations by experts in climate science, landscape restoration, and forest ecology on techniques for this uncertain future, and gave examples where these techniques are working.

University of Idaho News, Oct. 10, 2016

USGS Briefing Sheet: 17 January 2017

USFWS Research Special Use Permit Application fillable pdf. Submit form to any of the following research committee members: Leann Wilkins, USFWS, leann_wilkins@fws,gov Luis Ramirez, Denver Zoo at Rio Mora NWR, lramirez@denverzoo.org Joe Zebrowski, New Mexico Highlands University, jpzebrowski@nmhu.edu

An unprecedented 40-year experiment in a 40,000 acre valley of Yosemite National Park strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas more resilient to fire, with the added benefit of increased water availability and resistance to drought. After a three-year assessment of the Park's Illilouette Creek Basin, UC Berkeley researchers concluded that a strategy dating to 1973 of managing wildfires with minimal suppression and almost no prescribed burns has created a landscape more resistant to catastrophic fire, with more diverse vegetation, forest structure and increased water storage. "When fire is not suppressed, you get all these benefits: increased stream flow, increased downstream water availability, increased soil moisture, which improves habitat for the plants in the watershed. And it increases the drought resistance of the remaining trees and also increases the fire resilience because you have created these natural firebreaks," said Gabrielle Boisramé, graduate student at UC Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and first author of the study. The Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy supports management of fires where possible. Managing fires is part of the Cohesive Strategy vision: to safely and effectively suppress fires, use fire where allowable, manage our natural resources, and as a Nation, live with wildland fire. Read the full article and find the published study at: ttp://wildfireinthewest.blogspot.com/2016/10/wildfire-management-vs-suppression.html.