Webinar: Unraveling the Complexity of Mixed Severity Fire Regimes

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In this webinar from May 2019, Cameron Naficy of the LIM Fire Regime Team synthesizes research findings from forests in the LIM study area, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and the Glacier/Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

Unraveling the Complexity of Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: New Insights From Three Rocky Mountain Ecosystems

Cameron Naficy

Recorded on May 21, 2019

In this presentation for the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, Cameron Naficy synthesizes findings from forests in the Landscapes in Motion study area, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and the Glacier/Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. He demonstrates opportunities to use historical data not only to gain a picture of historical fire regimes and landscapes, but to better understand the processes behind them.

Topics covered include:

  • Mixed-severity fire regime concepts and definitions

  • Advances in how we study mixed-severity fire regimes (combining tree-ring analysis and historical aerial photographs)

  • The basic ecology of mixed-severity fire regimes (a comparative framework of the three study systems)

  • Novel ecological outcomes (four case studies)