Fall 2012 Meeting
November 8-9, 2012, South Lake Tahoe
Thanks to everyone who attended our fall meeting in Tahoe! The meeting was a huge success, thanks to the great presenters and workshop leaders and the diverse, interested audience. We also had the pleasure of viewing--for the first time ever!--a new documentary on prescribed fire, which was created by folks at the Mid Klamath Watershed Council. And the people who held out for the field tour enjoyed beautiful vistas of the lake and great discussions with our hosts from the USDA Forest Service and the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, and learned a lot about prescribed fire in the Tahoe Basin.
Meeting Summary
Presentations
Hugh Safford
Norb Szczurek
Jeff Kane
Scott Stephens
Tim Kline
Zach Prusak
Please email Lenya with any specific questions about the meeting at nwcapfc@gmail.com
Fall Meeting Agenda
Sonoma Technology Workshop Description
FERA Workshop Description
Thanks to our sponsors, who helped make the meeting possible!
California Klamath-Siskiyou Fire Learning Network
The US Fire Learning Network
supports the California Klamath-Siskiyou Fire Learning Network (CKS
FLN), a parternship focused on sharing learning and practice for land
management in the Trinity and Western Klamath Mountains. The CKS
FLN works at all levels, from national to landscape, to conduct
strategic public outreach aimed at building support for ecosystem
restoration and fuels management. For more information, visit their website at http://www.thewatershedcenter.com/?page_id=347
Watershed Research and Training Center
The WRTC was formed in order to rebuild our economy based on an ethic of
land stewardship and restoration. To those ends, we’ve re-trained woods
workers, built local contracting capacity, engaged in fuels reduction
in the WUI, led local collaborative efforts, and are working with
partners to develop and implement landscape-scale restoration strategies
across the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. For more information, visit http://www.thewatershedcenter.com/
USDA Forest Service
The USDA Forest Service is an important sponsor of this meeting. Thanks to Paige Boyer, our Forest Service representative on the Steering Committee, for her on-going support for the council. Thanks also to John Washington for his assistance with the field tour.
Sonoma Technology
STI’s forest and fire ecology services include:
-Assistance with the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) -Prescribed fire planning and support
-Fuel consumption and emissions studies for prescribed fire and/or wildland fire
-Fire weather evaluation services
For more information, contact Stacy Drury (Senior Fire Ecologist) or Erin Banwell (Forest/Fire Ecologist)
California Fire Science Consortium
The primary goals of the consortium are: 1) To become a clearinghouse for
fire science resources in California, and 2) To encourage
collaboration between fire researchers, land managers, and other
stakeholders. For more information, visit http://www.cafiresci.org/
