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As the climate continues to change, land and fire managers will be increasingly challenged in developing and adopting management strategies that facilitate societal and ecological adaptation to changing fire regimes. Addressing this management challenge will require collaborative sustained research on new approaches to management before, during, and after fire events. A partnership including the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USDA Forest Service (FS) and the Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASC) have developed a draft framework for evaluating and accelerating the adoption of new and innovative management strategies
to changing fire regimes.
Workshop #1: Association of Fire Ecology (AFE) Special Session
The framework grew from a recent AFE session, which included scientists, practitioners, Tribal members, and boundary spanners working at the nexus of climate change and fire. Several themes emerged during the session including the collaborative use of models to guide managers and the public through a range of plausible future scenarios, incorporating diverse perspectives to define desired conditions, empowering Indigenous led management, learning from management actions through adaptive management and long-term monitoring, and approaching changes in management and culture with humility, transparency, trust, and communication.
Workshop #2: IAWF Fire & Climate Conference
The partnership will present the draft framework for feedback in conjunction with the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) Conference on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, 1:00 – 3:00 (PDT). Workshop participants will explore science, outreach, partnership, policy, and other needs to inform a collaborative, science-based framework for advancing adaptation to changing fire regimes. Break-out sessions will include the following questions–
• What adaptation strategies are you implementing or know of being implemented, in response to changing conditions?
• What enabling conditions have led to the implementation of new strategies?
• What adaptation strategies would you like to experiment with, how can we increase the pace of learning, adaptive management, and adopting new adaptation strategies?
Register here.
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