Pacific Fire Exchange

Webinar: Mythbusters! Wildfire myths in Hawai`i
2023-02-15 11:00 - 12:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
As part of Hawai‘i Invasive Species Awareness month, Hawai‘i Wildfire Management Organization’s Elizabeth Pickett will focus on wildfire myths in Hawai‘i.
Watch the webinar HERE

Talk Story Tuesdays: Grazing to Reduce Blazing
2022-11-08 11:00 - 12:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
What: In this Pacific Fire Exchange talk story Q&A session, we round up the latest research, past and present for managers and landowners wanting to understand more about how our four-legged friends (goats, sheep, cows, etc.) if managed properly can help reduce blazing and wildland fire.
Where: virtual
Who: This month’s science share out and conversation will be with University of Hawai‘i’s Dr. Mark Thorne, Specialist, State Range and Livestock Extension and Dr. Clay Trauernicht, Fire and Ecosystems Specialist.
Research Resources on Grazing to Reduce Blazing
Moisture availability and ecological restoration limit fine fuels and modelled wildfire intensity following non-native ungulate removal in Hawaii (Zhu et al, 2021)
Effects of Prescribed Grazing and Burning Treatments on Fire Regimes in Alien Grass-dominated Wildland-Urban Interface Areas, Leeward Hawaii (Castillo and McAdams, 2006)
Aloha to Flammable Fountain Grass: Fuels Management Comes to the Big Island of Hawaii (Marjie Brown, 2009)
Removal of Invasive Fire-Prone Grasses to Increase Training Lands in the Pacific (Ansari et al, 2008)
Assessment of Livestock Grazing Impacts on Fuels and Cultural Resources at Mākua Military Reservation (Warren et al, 2007)

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Webinar: Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping
2022-06-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Rachael Cleveland will demonstrate the utility of a decision support tool called Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) which enables all stakeholders to create a “mental map” that can capture and compute the impacts of various decision-making scenarios on important resources. Land managers will learn how the FCM software works and its application to a wildfire group in Wai`anae, Hawai‘i whom she interviewed as part of her research.

Presentation: Wildland Considerations--A Hawai‘i Island Firefighter's Perspective
2022-04-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Eric Moller, Deputy Chief of Hawai‘i County Fire Department shares his perspective of the changing fire regimes in Hawai‘i, current challenges and how we can help.

Presentation: Guam's Wildfire Outlook (2022)
2022-04-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Christine Fejeran, Guam Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Soil Resources Division describes the wildfire threats to ecosystems and people on Guam, the on-going education challenges, and hopes for the future.

Webinar: When Climate Change and Invasive Species Intersect
2022-03-22 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Kelsey Brock will present on the process of identifying fire-promoting invasive plants and their impacts in Hawaiʻi via the new tool: the Weed Fire Risk Assessment.

Weed Fire Risk Assessment Tool: a Hands-On Webinar for Land Managers & Owners
2022-02-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Dr. Clay Trauernicht Wildland Fire Specialist will introduce how certain invasive plants promote wildfire in Hawai‘i and how the new Weed Fire Risk Database analyzes 360+ weed species for their fire-promoting traits.

Webinar: A Landscape Perspective on Fire & Invasive Species in Hawaiʻi
2022-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
As part of Hawai‘i Invasive Species Awareness month, Dr. Clay Trauernicht will focus on the grass-fire cycle at the landscape scale to describe the scale of the challenge at hand, the contributions of historical and social change, and examples of how people are working together to deal with it.
