In January, the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and many other partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the needs identified in the workshop, this collaborative group is hosting a yearlong series of workshops, webinars, and reports. This series is intended to help researchers and practitioners across fire and wildlife disciplines exchange ideas, tools, and lessons to address the rapid pace and scale of fire management.

In the fourth webinar of this series, a panel of experts representing agency, tribal, NGO, and international interests will discuss understanding wildlife conservation and landscape-scale impacts of fire in the Southwest through a single-species lens. Topics include the 4th Congressionally mandated national assessment on tribal forestry, which documents how tribes balance the triple bottom line of land stewardship; an iconic case study demonstrating single species management with large impactions for wildland fire and forest restoration; the importance of adopting flexible and regionally-relevant management practices, including various fire management practices, for the conservation of jaguars, a wide-ranging species with the potential to adapt to changing features over a large landscape and across national borders; current research on important pollinators – bees – including their known positive response to intermediate disturbance and the unknowns of their response to increasingly uncharacteristic wildfire; and making the connection between fire, watershed restoration, and bat conservation in the Southwest.

Please join us on September 24 to learn more about understanding the intersection of fire and wildlife through a singular species focus with many viewpoints.

To learn more and register, visit: https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/wildlife-and-fire-understanding-landscape-scale-impacts-and