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In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Matt Germino, Supervisory Research Ecologist, Jake Price, Ecologist, Chad Kluender, Ecologist, and Cara Applestein, Ecologist (U.S. Geological Survey Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center) discuss fuel treatments and management challenges in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands of the western US. The USGS FIREss team (Fires, Invasives, Restoration of Shrub Steppe) discuss their techniques for adapting new technologies to manage invasive annual grass and wildfire risks at landscape scales. They discuss new approaches to modeling and monitoring that are built on LANDFIRE, RAP and other digital tools. PARTNER ORGANIZATION: US Geological Survey Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

 

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Fuel Treatments in Sagebrush and Other Semiarid Uplands: the FIREss Approach
Presenter(s): Matthew J. Germino, Jake Price, Chad Kluender, Cara Applestein

Event Details

Sep 17 2025, 10 - 11am Pacific Time
Virtual Event
Presenter(s): Matthew J. Germino, Cara Applestein, Jake Price, Chad Kluender
Hot Topic(s):
Big Sagebrush Fire Ecology and Management

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