Supporting Effective Fire Risk Management Through Research: A Collaboration Between the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Joint Fire Science Program
Fire regimes are changing in multiple ways, from longer, more extreme wildfire seasons to restricted opportunities for preventative fire management. Researchers supported by this Southwest CASC collaboration will strengthen partnerships among other researchers and managers to implement science-based management approaches for adapting to changing fire regimes. Through these partnerships, resource managers will have greater support in creating and implementing effective management plans for future changes in climate.
Project Summary
Fire regimes are changing in multiple ways , including longer wildfire seasons, more extreme fire events, and restricted opportunities for conducting prescribed burning. Land managers are increasingly challenged in developing and adopting management strategies that facilitate societal and ecological adaptation to the altered fire regimes due to the high degrees of uncertainty in outcomes, societal expectations, resource constraints, and longstanding organizational cultural norms.
Recognizing these challenges, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), a partnership between The Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC) articulated a framework to guide future science funding opportunities. Through partnerships among scientists, managers, and practitioners, this framework begins with the development of new management strategies meant to accelerate adaptation to changing fire regimes that incorporate multiple perspectives. This includes Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems that bring deep experience with land stewardship under changing conditions.
To that end, the JFSP and SW CASC solicited proposals that articulate a vision and process whereby place-based partnerships among scientists, practitioners, managers, and other interested parties come together to consider the best available science and varied perspectives in the identification and implementation of management approaches that are responsive to changing fire regimes. By the end of a two-year project period, awarded projects will be expected to have identified new adaptive management strategies or approaches, a plan for implementation and monitoring of identified management interventions, and critical gaps in scientific knowledge that, in turn, can be addressed in future funding opportunities.
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 677d62fcd34e480c9507fb7c)
Fire regimes are changing in multiple ways, from longer, more extreme wildfire seasons to restricted opportunities for preventative fire management. Researchers supported by this Southwest CASC collaboration will strengthen partnerships among other researchers and managers to implement science-based management approaches for adapting to changing fire regimes. Through these partnerships, resource managers will have greater support in creating and implementing effective management plans for future changes in climate.
Project Summary
Fire regimes are changing in multiple ways , including longer wildfire seasons, more extreme fire events, and restricted opportunities for conducting prescribed burning. Land managers are increasingly challenged in developing and adopting management strategies that facilitate societal and ecological adaptation to the altered fire regimes due to the high degrees of uncertainty in outcomes, societal expectations, resource constraints, and longstanding organizational cultural norms.
Recognizing these challenges, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), a partnership between The Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC) articulated a framework to guide future science funding opportunities. Through partnerships among scientists, managers, and practitioners, this framework begins with the development of new management strategies meant to accelerate adaptation to changing fire regimes that incorporate multiple perspectives. This includes Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems that bring deep experience with land stewardship under changing conditions.
To that end, the JFSP and SW CASC solicited proposals that articulate a vision and process whereby place-based partnerships among scientists, practitioners, managers, and other interested parties come together to consider the best available science and varied perspectives in the identification and implementation of management approaches that are responsive to changing fire regimes. By the end of a two-year project period, awarded projects will be expected to have identified new adaptive management strategies or approaches, a plan for implementation and monitoring of identified management interventions, and critical gaps in scientific knowledge that, in turn, can be addressed in future funding opportunities.
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 677d62fcd34e480c9507fb7c)