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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Sep 17, 2025
Matthew J. Germino, Jake Price, Chad Kluender, Cara Applestein
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Topic(s):
Simulation Modeling
Perennial Invasive
LANDFIRE
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Perennial Invasive
LANDFIRE
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Ecosystem(s):
Sagebrush steppe
NRFSN number: 28055
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