Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists

10/07/2025

📣Join Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network and Liz Walker, PhD, for an informational webinar all about our new Smoke Ready Communities materials!
🗓 October 9, 2025 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST
ℹ️ For more information and to register visit: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L2BLYesaSv22n9JaYt2Ulg?_x_zm_rtaid=Ow0sp7uWQleJfEGfCb9v2A.1759867853621.43f750c1c54d9b86f79ef1bbef644340&_x_zm_rhtaid=555 #/registration

10/02/2025

The The Shortleaf Pine Initiative will be hosting their 6th Biennial Shortleaf Pine Conference!
🗓 November 11 - 13, 2025 at Lake Guntersville State Park in Alabama
ℹ️ For more information on registration and to view this year's agenda visit: https://shortleafpine.org/shortleaf-pine-initiative/events/6th-biennial-shortleaf-pine-conference

09/30/2025

📣 Don't forget to register for this amazing upcoming webinar on October 7th!! We've partnered with Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium, Southern Fire Exchange, and Dr. Victoria Donovan from the UF IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences SFFGS to examine “Changing Large Wildfire Regime Dynamics in the Eastern U.S.”
🔥 To register visit: https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/mvH72CZlS3y-IJq2SXO4yQ?fbclid=IwY2xjawNJIphleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF3QmhmdE5JTTg0NmJXMmgxAR6Ht-yqSq_9RtTZQYSJj13BgiYKezE03kFLzKtVDj94hhpdXPdM6XVzWOyNGw_aem_9ELYlkhhBnNrTSf-KxMLbw #/registration

Another webinar?! We couldn't help ourselves! 🔥🌲

SFE, Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium and the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists are teaming up this time with Dr. Victoria Donovan from the UF IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences SFFGS to examine “Changing Large Wildfire Regime Dynamics in the Eastern U.S.” Join us on October 7th as we explore the drivers and implications of shifting wildfire patterns across the region.

Register for the webinar here:
https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/mvH72CZlS3y-IJq2SXO4yQ #/registration

09/22/2025

📣 REMINDER! 📣You don't want to miss this upcoming webinar on Thursday September 25th! We will be co-hosting with Southern Fire Exchange to have Dr. Charles Lafon, Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University present, "Historical Fire Regimes and Vegetation Patterns of the Blue Ridge and Vicinity."
ℹ️ To register visit: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_umDD9nGHS3OTDtXTpQ70ig?fbclid=IwY2xjawM-ctRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFVRnNlNTFxQm9YRTNxbUdFAR4ylI1WnsHa5SYpcS36kMU5xDqa6J1-uh09WGSRq0IVc9h5JbmILfftiYJEdQ_aem_BNQ5LwFrDHaMmnGDx2vb3Q #/registration

09/19/2025

📢🔥New research publication: Siskind, T., Wirth, P. E., & Lafon, C. W. (2025). Fire-dependent vegetation through the past two-and-a-half centuries on a wet-temperate landscape, southern Blue Ridge Escarpment, USA. Physical Geography, 1–26.
ℹ️ https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2025.2551201
✅ Full article can be found on our website:https://www.appalachianfire.org/_files/ugd/696505_fcc3f59735cc4531ae601fd85e4d4d3c.pdf

09/11/2025

📣 Join us on October 7th!

🔥 The first webinar of our 2025 webinar series is only a month away!
🔗For more information and to register: https://oakfirescience.com/events/2025-fall-webinar-series/
Dr. Donovan's presentation will include findings from a recent study highlighted in this research brief: https://oakfirescience.com/research-brief/woody-cover-fuels-large-wildfire-risk-in-the-eastern-u-s/ (...includes a link to the original article).
This webinar will be cohosted by the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists and the Southern Fire Exchange.

09/04/2025

📣Upcoming Webinar hosted by Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium and in partnership by Southern Fire Exchange: Increasing large wildfires and wood cover fuels in the Eastern U.S
🗓 October 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00 pm EST, 1:00pm - 2:00 pm Central
ℹPresented by: Dr. Victoria Donovan, University of Florida. To register visit:

08/25/2025

🔥Check out our second quarterly newsletter of 2025: Vol 15 Issue 2!
https://www.appalachianfire.org/_files/ugd/696505_1a66a3e18f26473998b61f6107e7272a.pdf

🧠The featured research brief synthesized in this newsletter is: Collin J. Anderson, Matthew P. Weand, Heather D. Alexander,
Mario Bretfeld, Nicholas Green. Variations in stand structure, composition, and fuelbeds drive prescribed fire behavior during mountain longleaf pine restoration. Forest Ecology and Management, Volume, 575, 2025.

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08/22/2025

A great interview by Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network with Kori Blankenship! 🔥

Fire Networks staff sit down with fire ecologist Kori Blankenship to learn more about the LANDFIRE program.