This is Part 1 of a joint webinar series brought to you by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Association of Fire Ecology that focuses on recent research of fire effects on wildlife species and communities. It is based on a special issue of the journal Fire Ecology.

Part 1 includes the following speakers and topics: Damon Lesmeister (Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station): Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires

Jonathan Dudley (Ecologist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station): Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds

Susan Loeb (Research Ecologist, Southern Research Station): Bats and Fire: What We Know, What We Need to Know