This workshop culminates the Available Science Assessment Project (ASAP), sponsored by the Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC), through which EcoAdapt and the Institute for Natural Resources are evaluating the science behind fire and fuels management climate adaptation actions in Northwest national forests, with a focus on prescribed fire. This project focused on Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana forests, but findings may be more broadly applicable.

The workshop will build on interviews with national forest managers who manage resources under shifting fire regimes, a systematic mapping of relevant literature, and an earlier science review panel discussion of the state of the science behind prescribed fire use under changing climate conditions. We are now bringing managers and scientists together for broader discussions regarding fuels management in the context of climate change in order to:

Information gathered from this meeting will help focus the NW CSC’s future calls for fire-related research, and stimulate the possibility of crafting an OpEd piece for peer-reviewed journals, such as Fire Ecology.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference and hosted in collaboration with the Northwest Fire Science Consortium and Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.