Westside Wildfire Research Initiative Co-producing Science to Meet Management Needs in W. WA and OR
Increases in area burned and the 2020 wildfires have prompted a greater interest in the role of fire in forests and communities of western Oregon and Washington.
In 2019, the USDA Pacific Northwest Research Station convened researchers and managers in the Westside Fire Research Initiative, a collection of co-produced research projects aimed at filling in critical knowledge gaps and delivering management-level information related to wildfire west of the Cascade crest in Oregon and Washington.
The Initiative’s projects collectively address three main themes:
1) Historical and future fire regimes.
2) Fuels management in moist, mixed conifer forests.
3) Post-fire vegetation trajectories and management strategies.
In this session, researchers will give brief presentations of ongoing and planned future work in each of the three initiative themes in an effort to expose participants to the different projects and project leads, and to enhance communication between collaboratives and researchers as part of the co-production process. Presentations will be followed by group discussion.
PRESENTERS:
Matt Rollins (Program Leader, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Matt Reilly (Postdoctoral Researcher, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Andy McEvoy (ORISE Research Fellow, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Becky Flitcroft (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Eric White (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Gretchen Engbring (Postdoctoral Researcher, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Morris Johnson (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)
Josh Halofsky (Research Scientist, Washington Dept. Natural Resources)
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