NRFSN produces two newsletters: the monthly NRFSN Newsletter, and the semi-annual Traditional Knowledge and Fire Newsletter.
- The NRFSN Newsletter contains information on new fire-related research products and publications, tools and resources for managers, upcoming events, audio/visual media recordings, and more. Contact us to submit an article to the NRFSN Newsletter.
- The Traditional Knowledge and Fire Newsletter (TK & Fire) shares news, events, management tools and applications, research, and more related to TK and fire and fuels management in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest. Email us at tkandfire@gmail.com to submit content to TK & Fire.
NRFSN Newsletter
Current Issue: October 2025
- Upcoming Webinar: Site conditions constrain the influence of fire on regeneration of whitebark pine
- A Year of Collaboration: The Fire Science Exchange Network
- NRFSN on the Road: Conference Recaps
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Around the Network: upcoming events, webinars & news
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Past Issues: NRFSN Newsletter
2025
- New Fire Science Exchange Network field trip summary: Tribal fire and forest management on the Flathead Reservation
- Women in Wildland Fire training opportunity
- New research briefs explore issues in Northern Rockies Region
- Register for NWCG RX-310 at AFE Conference
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- News, events & webinars
- Reminder: Joint Fire Science Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
- CFLRP Dashboard archives regional restoration projects
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Joint Fire Science Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
- USDA signs agreement to reduce wildfire risk in Montana
- Learn more about the Fire Science Exchange Network in a new video
- Intertribal Timber Council Symposium Recap
- Behave7 Webinar Recordings Posted
- Screening "The Fire Problem"
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Around the Network
- Upcoming Webinars: The Behave7 Fire Modeling System
- New Perspectives: Preparing the Next Generation through Student Fire Associations
- Save the Date: Fire Problem Screening May 30th
- Find us at the Annual National Indian Timber Symposium
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Around the Network: upcoming events, webinars & news
- Sign up for an upcoming webinar on fire impacts of beaver dams
- Follow us on social media
- Webinar recording posted
- Fire Problem Screening in Hamilton
- Catch up on past events, new science coming out around the region, and more!
- Sign up for our upcoming webinar: Impacts of prescribed fire on drought vulnerability and short-term growth of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir
- The NRFSN welcomes Science Communication Specialist
- Join another upcoming webinar: Pre-and post-fire impacts of Beaver Dams and Beaver Dam Analogs
- New JFSP fact sheet: Co-Management of Risk
- Explore the RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Catch up on past events, new science coming out around the region, and more!
- Watch our new video with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on traditional knowledge and fire
- Sign up for our upcoming webinar on drought and prescribed fire impacts on short-term tree growth
- Catch up on past events, new science coming out around the region, and more!
- Happy New Year!
- New documentary "The Fire Problem" screening
- News, events, and other info
2024
- Summary of 2024 SERNAC Conference
- Details on upcoming RMRS Fire Lab seminar series and SCIENCEx Fire series
- Grant and scholarship opportunities
- Come by and see us at the Society for Range Management meeting!
- New Storymap on Reburns in the Northern Rockies
- Recent Paper on Prescribed Fire Training Published
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Around the Network: upcoming events, webinars & news
- New photosequences for masticated fuels and cones
- Landscape Scale Restoration Program grants open
- New Hot Topics webpage
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars and news
- Funding deadline approaches
- Cultural fire learning
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars and news
- New NRFSN publication - Perspectives: emerging prescribed fire councils in the Northern Rockies region
- Upcoming workshop "Indigenous Cultural Fire is Indigenous Fire Resilience"
- Recent report on prescribed fire planning and implementation capacity of NGOs
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars and news
- JFSP Notice of Funding Opportunity
- WA DNR Call for Grant Funding
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Field Trip Summary Incoming
- Events and webinars
- Recap of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network All-Exchange Meeting and Field Trip
- Overview of the Wildfire Risk to Communities website
- Study results and video from Monica Turner's study in the Greater Yellowstone area
- Updated standards for Fire Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars, and news
- New paper on post-fire vegetation shifts
- Introduction to the Fire Weather Alert System (FWAS) mobile app
- NRFSN to host All Exchange Meeting
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars, and news
- 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
- New paper on fire suppression
- Recent webinar on the impacts of climate and wildfire on western larch regeneration
- Introducing the RiskMonitor Framework
- NRFSN to host All Exchange Meeting
- RMRS Fire Lab Corner
- Events, webinars, and news
- NRFSN Staff Transitions
- Upcoming webinar: Impacts of climate and wildfire on western larch regeneration
- NRFSN & RMRS Connected Science Factsheet reaches the White House
- Register for the 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
- New StoryMap: Wilderness and Fire
- Subscribe to our Tribal Knowledge & Fire Newsletter
2023
- JFSP Funding Opportunities
- Wilderness Fire Science Workshop Presentations
- USFS Releases National Prescribed Fire Resource Mobilization Strategy
- Northwest Portion of LandFire 2022 Now Available
- Managed Wildfire: A Research Synthesis and Overview
- Updates to Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy Released
- Dr. David Calkin Receives IAWF Ember Award
- JFSP Welcomes Molly Hunter as Science Advisor
- JFSP Welcomes Coleen Haskell as Program Manager
- Upcoming Wilderness Fire Science Workshop
- New Story Map Describes How to Use IFTDSS for Burn Plans
- New Webinar Recordings: Fire and Wildlife, Short-interval high-severity reburns, and Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
- New WildfireSAFE App Improves Firefighter and Public Safety
- Wildland Fire Histomap - Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future
- New USGS Wildland Fire Trends Tool
- PCAST Releases Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting through Science and Technology
- Congratulations to the 2022 AFE Award Winners
- USFS Social Scientist Sarah McCaffrey Retires
- Upcoming Webinars on Wildfire Effects on Wildlife
- Webinar: Short-interval high-severity reburns change the playing field for forest recovery
- Check Out the New NRFSN Website
- Analyzing 10 Years of Firefighter Safety and Wellbeing
- Whitebark Pine Listed as Threatened under ESA
- NICC Wildland Fire Summary and Statistics Annual Report
- NRFSN Coordinator to Fire Lab
- USFS Program Manager Tim Sexton Retires
- You May Have Missed our NRFSN September Newsletter
2022
- New Research Briefs - Reburns and Post-Fire Regen
- Wildland Firefighter Health Hot Topic and Webinars
- USFS Prescribed Fire Review
- "High Five" Special Journal Issue and Proceedings
- MT Forest Action Plan RFP Now Open
- NSF Wildland Fire Science Planning Proposals
- Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission
- Changes in NRFSN Leadership
- Tribute to Steve Arno
- Wildland Firefighter Health Webinar Series
- Field Trip - Rx Fire in Lodgepole Ecosystems
- Webinar - North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network
- RMRS Fire Management Tools Roundup
- LANDFIRE Update
- Wilderness Fire Management Survey
- Wildfire Lessons Learned Center Celebrates 20 Years
- Rothermel Fire Spread Model Turns 50
- NPS Intermountain Region Staff Updates
- New IFTDSS Story Map
- New Research Brief on Invasive Species
- Upcoming Webinar: Fire Weather and Decision-making
- Upcoming Field Trip - Rx Fire in Mixed Severity Regimes
- Wilderness Fire Science Spotlight
- The FireEarth Project
- Post-fire Tree Mortality Story Map
- IAWF Fire and Climate Conference
- AFE Fire Across Boundaries Conference
2021
- The Evolution of Wilderness Fire Management
- Salvage Science Summit 2: Technology and Ecology
- New Research Briefs
- NRFSN Survey: Help Us Set Priority Topics & Activities
- Wildfire Communication Guide
- Integrating Wildfire Into Forest Landscape Management
- Fire Research at the Science-Policy-Practitioner Interface
- Carol Miller Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- New Research Briefs - Resilience, Fuel Treatments
- Joint Fire Science Program Updates
- Fire Season Resources
- Fall Conference Updates
- Firelab.org Update
- SKC Launches Natural Resources M.S. Degree Program
- Journal Fire Seeking Submissions for Special Issue
- Mike DeGrosky Retires
- JFSP Funding Opportunity Announcements
- Fire Prediction Products from NICC
- Risk Management Assistance Dashboard for Fire Events
- LANDFIRE Releases Updated Fuels and Vegetation Data
- IAWF Workforce Resilience Ignite Talk Series
- Northern Rockies Fire Season Outlook
- Wildland Fire Tract at Upcoming SAF Conference
- Announcements and Awards
- In the News
- Skype-a-Scientist
- Salvage Science Series
- Watch the presentations from the Crown Fire Forum
- New Burn Severity Data Portal
- New: IFTDSS Compares Weather Scenarios
- COVID-19 Resources for Wildland Fire
- Fireline Podcast
- Women Working on Wildfires, a Storymap
- Montana Forest Action Plan Funding Announcements
- Northern Rockies May-August Fire Potential Outlook
- Register for the IAWF Virtual Conference May 24-27
- Peter Robichaud Receives Jim Sedell Research Achievement Award
- Upcoming Workshop: Fire in the Crown of the Continent
- Share Your Feedback - NRFSN Participants Survey
- Fire Science and Management Podcasts
- What's New in IFTDSS?
- IAWF Wildland Fire Safety Summit & Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference
- 2020 National Prescribed Fire Use Report
- USGS Wildland Fire Strategic Plan
- New Issue of Fire Management Today
- Rocky Mountain Research Station Updates and Awards
2020
- New Research Briefs
- New "Hot Topic" Webpages
- Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) Storymap
- WildfireSAFE App
- COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool
- NWCG Smoke and Safety Guide
- Joint Vision on Benefits of Prescribed Fire to Wildfire
- Most Promising Scientist Award
- 2020 Fire Season "In the News"
- Lessons from Wilderness Fire Video
- Prescribed Fire Video
- Traditional Knowledge and Fire Newsletter
- High Five Conference and Crown Fire Forum Updates
- Invasive Species Science Update
- COVID-19 Wildland Fire Resource Pages
- JFSP Funding Opportunity Announcements NOW OPEN
- Association for Fire Ecology Updates
- NRFSN Staffing Update National and Regional Staffing Updates
- Northern Rockies Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
- Wildfire Risk to Communities Website
- Montana Wildfire Risk Assessment Resources
- Exposure Analysis Available in IFTDSS
- NPS Wildland Fire Program News Links
- High Five Conference Management Scholarships
- JFSP Forecasted Funding Opportunity Announcement
- JFSP Announces 2020 GRIN Recipients
- New JFSP Program Manager Announced
- NRFSN Staffing Update
- Bob Keane Retires
- Monica Turner Receives ESA Award
- New Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center Manager
- Northern Rockies Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
- Post-Fire Tree Regeneration Products
- New Traditional Knowledge & Fire Newsletter
- Crown of the Continent Fire Forum
- H5II - Conference on High Elevation Five Needle Pines
- Idaho Prescribed Fire Council in Development
- Story Map Features Interagency Monitoring Application
- LANDFIRE 2016 Remap Data Now in IFTDSS
- Northern Rockies 2019 Wildfire Season Summary
2019
- JFSP 2020 Funding Opportunity Announcements Open
- Joint Fire Science Program: Resources on FireScience.gov
- Upcoming Workshops: Learning About Resilient Futures
- Sign Up for New Traditional Knowledge & Fire Newsletter
- Map your Values in IFTDSS: The Next Step toward Exposure Analysis and Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment (Coming Soon!)
- FlamMap 6.0 Updates
- WindNinja Updates
- A Guide for Firefighters and their Families
- Now Accepting Nominations for 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Awards
- NRFSN - Summer 2019 Events
- 2019 Fire Season - Numbers to Date
- NRFSN Staff Updates
- Regional Staff Updates
- Upcoming NRFSN Field Trips / Workshops
- Wildland Fire Danger Rating System Updates
- Spring 2019 Pre-Season Primer - Useful Links
- NRCC Releases June Outlook for 2019 Fire Season
- Take Survey: Fire Effects Information System
- Wyoming Statewide Prescribed Fire Council Established
- Mark Finney Receives Ember Award from IAWF
- Former District Ranger and Wilderness Champion Passes
- Staff Update
- Save the Date! Upcoming NRFSN Field Trips / Workshops
- NRFSN Spring 2018 Webinars
- New NRFSN Research Briefs
- JFSP Funding Opportunity Announcements Open
- Montana Joins Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
- Byron Bonney Receives Wildfire Mitigation Award
- At a Glance: RMRS Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
- New Staff Changes
2018
- IFTDSS Version 3.1.1 Released
- Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring (FTEM)
- New Report: Finding Common Ground on Fire in the West
- NRFSN - New Web Resources
- National Park Service Fire Website Updated
- Sparking Community Conversations through Art
- NRFSN - Fall 2018 Events
- NRFSN - Needs Assessment
- Staffing Update (Wildland Fire Management RD&A)
- Save the Date - Upcoming Events in ID and MT!
- InciWeb Public Website Redesign
- Community Mitigation Assistance Teams
- Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit
- Risk Management Assistance Teams
- Communicating Fire Science with Art
- 2018 Fire Continuum Conference
- Spring 2018 NRFSN Events
- NRFSN Field Trips, Workshops, and Webinars
- How Are We Doing? Please Take Our Survey
- Fire Continuum Conference Update
- IRMA: National Park Service Data and Publications Online
- RMRS Research Data Archive
- JFSP GRIN Funding Opportunity Now Open
- At a Glance - The Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation
- Fire Lab Researchers Receive Paul Gleason Award
- Upcoming NRFSN Workshops and Field Trip
- Fire Continuum Conference - Workshops and Field Trips
- Fire Continuum Conference - Registration Scholarships
- Videos Highlight Wilderness Fire Science and Management
- Updates to BehavePlus
- New IFTDSS Version Released
- LANDFIRE Website Gets a Makeover
- Input Wanted: Sagebrush Ecosystems Actionable Science Plan
- Tri-County Firesafe Working Group Lead Receives National Wildfire Mitigation Award
2017
- NRFSN Webinar and Video Archive is Growing!
- Fire Continuum Conference – Field Trips & Workshops
- Hot Topics – A New NRFSN Website Feature
- National Cohesive Strategy Workshop – Registration Open
- A Note from Montana DNRC: 2017 Fire Season
- Joint Fire Science Program FY18 Funding Update
- 2017 Fire Season - Numbers to Date
- Lubrecht Fuel Treatment Effects Field Trip
- Call for Proposals: 2nd Cohesive Strategy Workshop
- Fire Ecology and Management Congress Workshops
- IFTDSS Version 3.0 Released
- Montana 2017 Climate Assessment Released
- Wilderness Fire - 45th White Cap Reunion
- Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory Renovations
- 2017 Fire Season - Numbers to Date
- NRFSN New Staff Members
- Era of Megafires - Montana Tour
- Save the Date - Fuel Treatment Effects Field Tour
- A Century of Wildland Fire Research
- 2017 Fire Outlook for the Northern Rockies
- Meet the Montana Forest Collaborative Network
- FireSafe Montana Launches New Website
- National Legacy Award to Dr. Jack Cohen
- NRFSN Coordinator Moving On
- Era of Megafires Multi-Media Presentation
- Call for Post-Fire Tree Mortality Data
- Modifying LANDFIRE Data: Guide & Webinar
- Fundamental Research on How Wildfires Spread
- National Cohesive Strategy Workshop
- FireWorks Workshop - June 15-16
- Whitebark Pine Workshop Recordings Available
- Cohesive Strategy Workshop
- Sage-Grouse Habitat Burned in 2016
- Gender Discrimination in Wildland Fire
- At a Glance - Southwestern Crown Collaborative
- National Wilderness Training Center Staff Changes
- New Lessons Learned Center Assistant Director
2016
- Landscape-level Fuels Workshop
- Wilderness Fire - Learning from the Past
- 2nd International Smoke Symposium
- New Releases from FEIS
- LANDFIRE Review of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems
- WindNinja Mobile App Available
- 2017 JFSP Funding Opportunities
- 2016 Yellowstone Fire Season
- Field Trip and Workshop - Wilderness Fire in the Bob Marshall
- Research Brief - Wildland Fire as a Fuel Treatment
- At a Glance - Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation
- News - Missoula Fire Lab Scientist Transitions
- 2016 NR Season Wildfire Outlook
- Interactive Community Mapping Tool
- Smoke Symposium Call for Presentations
- Decision Support Training Opportunities
- FireWorks Educational Trunk - Master Class
- Wilderness Fire Science Webinar
- 2016 JFSP Funded Projects in the NR
- JFSP Staffing Updates
- Missoula Technology & Development Center Tour
- FEIS Now Searchable by Fire Regime
- Travel Grants - Fire Behavior & Fuels Conference
- Travel Grants - Collaborative Restoration Workshop
- 2015 NR Fire Season - Final Numbers
- 2015 Wildfire Spending
- At a Glance - Rocky Mountains CESU
2015
- Yellowstone Fire Ecology Field Tour
- Smoke Management and Air Quality Project
- Interactive Tribal Connections Map
- LANDFIRE Reviewing Biophysical Settings
- At A Glance - The GYCC
- Join Us in Yellowstone - October 1-2
- Experimental Forests and Demonstration Areas
- 2015 JFSP Funded Projects in the N. Rockies
- 2016 JFSP Funding Opportunities
- 2015 Fire Season - Numbers to Date
- Quadrennial Fire Review Released
- 2015 Season Wildfire Outlook
- Montana Water Supply Outlook
- Search NRFSN Webinar Archive
- The GNLCC - At a Glance
- FFI Interagency Monitoring Tool Updated
- Smoke Can Influence Tornado Severity
- Wildfire Risk and Fuel Treatment Analysis Workshop
- Human Dimensions in Safety and Wildland Fire
- FireWorks Educational Trunk - Master Class
- Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications
- Webinar - Wildfire as a Fuel Treatment
- Network of Fire Science Champions 2015
- At a Glance - FRAMES
- The Big Burn to Air on PBS
2014
- Bark Beetles and Fire Featured in Science
- Reducing Wildfire Risk to Communities
- Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide Updated
- LANDFIRE Offers New Course in its 10th Year
- Safety Summit & Human Dimensions of Fire
- Effects of Past Fires on Fire Behavior
- Crown Fire Behavior in Coniferous Forests
- MTBS Announces Data Updates
- Fire Effects Information System — At a Glance
- JFSP Funding Announcement for FY 2015
- NRFSN Resource Database is Live
- Mountain Pine Beetle Webinar Proceedings
- Boise Basin Field Tour - September 17
- Cross-jurisdictional Fire Management Workshop
- Fuel Treatment Planning and Evaluation Workshop
- JFSP Announces Funded Projects for FY2014
- NRFSN Receives Renewal Funding
- MSU Fire Science Studies — At a Glance
- Online Fire Education for Professionals at the U of I
- Join us at the Large Wildland Fires Conference
- April 23 - Final Webinar of the LANDFIRE Series
- 2014 Fire Season Outlook
- QFR Comment Period Extended
- Interagency Monitoring Tool: FFI-Lite
- NPS Wildland Fire Management Manual Revised
- Dance Teaches Fire Science
- NRFSN Introduces New Coordinator
2013
- MTBS Announces Data Updates
- JFSP Opens 2014 Research Funding Opportunity
- NRFSN Research Needs Survey Results
- Human Factors and Risk Management RD&A — At a Glance
- UI and UM Programs Receive AFE Academic Certification
- You're Invited! Integrated Fuel Treatment Field Trip in Idaho
- June 5th Webinar: Economics of Fuel Treatments
- Interactive Tools for Assessing Wildfire Costs
- New Features in WFDSS
- SKC Fire Science Degree Program — At a Glance
- JFSP Highlights Discoveries and Innovations
- New Structure Wrapping Module
- Video: RxCadre Collaborative Fire Research
- Webinar Series Addresses Fuel Treatments in Mixed-Conifer Forests
- Field Trip Invitation: Integrated Fuel Treatment in Idaho
- UI Wildland Fire Program — At a Glance
- New Tools from FEIS
- Ten Years of Fire Research: The US Joint Fire Science Program
- Dance Performance Communicates Fire Science to Students
- "What is a Flame" Video Wins Contest
- FFI: An Interagency Tool for Monitoring and Data Sharing
- Seeking Nominations for IFT-DSS Evaluation
- New Definitions – Fire Severity and Fire Regime
- NPS Fire Science and Ecology Program – At a Glance
- FRAMES – A New Look and Feel
- New JFSP Fire Science Digest on Smoke
- JFSP Publications Available for Mobile Devices
- JFSP Solicits Feedback on Publications
- Behave Scientist Pat Andrews Retires
- 2012 Fire Season and the Changing Climate
2012
- Traditional Knowledge and Fire Workshop
- Network of Fire Science Champions
- JFSP Funding Opportunity Notices
- WFM RDA—Who We Are and What We Do
- Changes for NIFTT Program
- NIFTT Tools, Online Courses, and Workshops
- Significant Fire Year for the Northern Rockies
- New Research Funded by JFSP
- NPS Updates Fire and Aviation Website
- Online Wildland Fire Degree and Courses
- National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis — At A Glance
- Fire Communication Study Preliminary Results
- Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference Available Online
- Welcome to the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network!
- What We Heard During NRFSN Needs Assessment
- JFSP Website Offers New Ways to Stay Connected
- Missoula Fire Lab—At a Glance
- New, Searchable Version of FEIS
- Help Us Make Fire and Fuels Syntheses More Useful
- Surveys Play Important Role in NRFSN Development
Traditional Knowledge and Fire Newsletter
Current Issue: July 2025
- Original artwork and storytelling by Monroe Fox
- Collection of new publications, videos, podcasts, etc.
- Upcoming events
- Open funding opportunities
- Resources on ethics and protocols for non-tribal entities looking to partner with Tribes
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Artwork titled "Iinnii at Home" by Monroe Fox