The SW Fire Science Consortium is a group who convenes managers, researchers, and policy makers to effectively share fire science information.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Based in United States
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Join us for the Arizona Tribal Wildland Fire Summit
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Hosted by Gila River Indian Community
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More info: f.mtr.cool/yuh8ir94i7
Scholarships available
Hotel discount ends November 13
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Learn about the Joint Fire Science Program, of which we are a part, in this brief video that provides an overview of our funders, purpose, publications/research, resources, and more! 🔥@firescienceGOV
📹youtube.com/watch?v=K_lKg7UP…
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Register for the Missoula Fire Lab Webinar Series on fire weather and meteorology, featuring presentations on prescribed burn windows, climatology, wind patterns, fire danger, and more research.fs.usda.gov/firelab….
Pictured: The Pipeline Fire, a wind driven fire, Flagstaff, AZ.
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Webinar tomorrow, October 27th at 11am in AZ, 12pm in NM! 🔥
Learn about 4D-FUELS, what it does and its accuracy at measuring fuels, how managers can use it to monitor changes, and more!
swfireconsortium.org/2026/10…
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Last week we attended the #NewMexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit. It was a great event! 🔥
Pictured: The field trip where we learned about how mastication treatments were used (you can see the course woody debris) to thin mostly small diameter oaks. 🌳🪚
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Register for our webinar on 4D-FUELS! Next week, Tuesday October, 27th at 11am AZ/12 NM
This presentation will discuss the development and accuracy of these maps and the efforts to use the workflow to measure changes in forest structure.
Register now! ➡️swfireconsortium.org/2026/10…
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Last week we had our annual in-person board meeting and then joined a field trip to learn about thinning projects @CoconinoNF
Our board is amazing and we want to give them a big thanks! They make everything we do possible 🌟👏
Learn about our board here: swfireconsortium.org/staff-d…
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Have you checked out our series on fire regimes in the #Southwest?? We provide multiple ways to learn about how #wildfire behaves and is supposed to behave (ie, how it acted in the past) in six different ecosystems in #Arizona and #NewMexico 🏜️🌲🔥
swfireconsortium.org/categor…
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Our Fire Ecology Learning Lab recently presented at the Arizona Association for Environmental Science Conference with Dr. Pamela Pelletier of the @uarizona on how to teach kids about Fire Ecology & Dendrochronology 🌲🔥
Find our next event here! swfireconsortium.org/fell-tr…
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Wood for Life event:
Flagstaff Sat, Sept 26 (last large distribution for the season!)
For #NationalPublicLandsDay, meet at the Canyon Vista Project Site on Lake Mary Road from 7:30 AM to 1 PM.
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Check out this Wood for Life Event
"Tri Nation" Wood Lot Tinian, NM Sept 26 & 27
A volunteer work day starting at 8 AM. Needed: helpers , sawyers (bring your saws!), and folks to move, stack, and split wood. Lunch and drinks provided. Please note no wood will be handed out here.
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Do you have a strong interest in #wildlandfire science? @FireScienceGOV is looking for reviewers!
Please consider serving as a peer reviewer fore JFSP. Link for the Peer Reviewer Interest Form (applications due by COB September 23rd) is below.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Register for Restoring the West, a workshop that strengthens connections between scientific knowledge and on-the-ground management. Event will be in Logan, Utah October 22-23.
Find out more! restoringthewest.org/Registr…
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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.” -Wallace Stegner #WildernessAct 🌲⛰️
📹youtube.com/watch?v=uIwIzAO5…
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Don't forget to register for the #NewMexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit (NM WUFS) 2026! 🔥
This year's summit will be in Silver City, New Mexico, October 14-16.
Find the full agenda & register now! ➡️ cvent.me/yBXPKl
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Learn about what the City of Santa Fe Water Division on behalf of the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition is doing to protect communities, forests, and watersheds in this video by the @forestguild. It features Elis Margolis, one of our board members! 🌟
📹youtube.com/watch?v=MyrmUEAi…
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Check out this awesome learning opportunity #Arizona #Wildlandfire !
Attend a Fire Effects Monitor workshop at Camp Navajo Oct. 12-16.
Hands on training on documenting fire effects and supporting informed decision making on Rx fire ops.
More info ➡️ forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/…
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Don't wait! Register now for our August 21st Fire Ecology Learning Lab in person workshop in Santa Fe, NM with the Forest Stewards Guild.
Check out our flyer or learn more here! 👩🏫
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Or here! swfireconsortium.org/fell-tr…
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Register for the #NewMexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit!
This event is always a great opportunity to learn about strategies related to #wildfire in the #WUI, to network and meet folks working on #wildlandfire related topics and more!
🌟cvent.me/yBXPKl🌟
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Learn how to communicate health risks and how to protect the public from #wildfiresmoke from the @EPA 🔥💨
epa.gov/system/files/documen…
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Present your research at the 2026 New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit (NM WUFS). 🏘️🔥
Questions about requirements? email hwoods@nmcounties.org
Submissions are due Thursday, August 20, 2026, to hwoods@nmcounties.org
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It's #WildlandFirefighterDay and we want to recognize and thank #wildlandfirefighers for their hard work in protecting our wilderness areas and WUI communities. 👩🚒🌲 Thank you!
Check out this Junior Wildland firefighter booklet!
nifc.gov/sites/default/files…
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Register for our next webinar on June 30th!
Join us to learn about the takeaways and restoration best practices that have come out of nearly a decade of RestoreNet’s field trials and experiments across the Southwest.
swfireconsortium.org/2026/05…
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Want to know the predictions for the 2026 #wildfire season in #Arizona and #NewMexico? 🔥
Our webinar reviews the biggest fires in the Southwest in 2025 and moves on to the fire outlook and monsoon predictions for 2026.
youtube.com/watch?v=k_YVUEJ2…
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Register now for our next FELL event!
The Fire Ecology Learning Lab can be used by teachers and agency members who are tasked with teaching kids about #wildfire in ecosystems across the #Southwest.
Learn more and register here! 🙋
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Learn about prescribed fire in #NewMexico!
May 16, 2026 | 8 AM - 3 PM at the Western Heritage Museum in Hobbs, NM.
Resister here! rsvp.aces.nmsu.edu/plainfire
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Learn about wildfire treatment data!
Navigating Treatment Data: Choosing the Right Dataset for Your Needs, May 15, 1-2:30 pm (ET)
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Webinar tomorrow, April 15, 2026 at 11am AZ / 12pm MT.
Register now to learn more about Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (CPBM) programs! 🌟
swfireconsortium.org/2026/03…
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Do you have plans for the weekend? 🔥
Come to Science on the Square in #Flagstaff on Sat, April 4 at Heritage Square.
We will have a table! Join us at 1 and 2:40 to hear a presentation on protecting homes and communities from #wildfire.
About the event downtownflagstaff.org/do/sci…
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For #SouthwestWildfireAwarenessWeek learn about #wildfire and #invasivespecies and the work being done to repair this ecosystem on the Lower Gila River.📹🔥
youtube.com/watch?v=PPLurmDE…
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Do you live in Northern Arizona? See a visual exhibition including storytelling hosted by the NAU College of Arts and Letters. Learn a bit about the history of the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks from whom NAU got their mascot, Louie.
April 3 at 4pm. ➡️ events.nau.edu/event/when-a-….
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Register for the Tribal Community Resilience Webinar series and learn how Tribal Nations are responding to resilience challenges across the U.S.
The webinars are at noon Pacific time on the 1st Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated. More info: bit.ly/4r7HmXR
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Looking for #environmentaleducation for classrooms, program curricula, & community outreach related to #wildfire??
Join UofA’s Laboratory of Tree Ring Research on Mar 23rd for a free workshop designed for educators and agency professionals.
RSVP: outreach.ltrr.arizona.edu/ed…
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Sign up for our Fire Ecology Learning Lab (FELL) training on March 19th at 10am and learn how to use our free curricula to teach kids about wildfire.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Do you have kids and live in #NorthernArizona??
#STEM Night at Williams Elementary Middle School is Thursday Mar 5 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. There will be lots of kids and families joining in on activities including our #FireEcology Learning Lab! 🔥
See the flyer to learn more! 🙋👩🔬
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We have had four webinars this year on #wildfire science! Recordings have been uploaded to our website so you can still learn about aspen and wildfire, the status of the Fix Our Forests Act, and research on wildfire firefighter health.
Recordings here! ➡️ swfireconsortium.org/events-…
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Happy #NationalWeatherpersonsDay!
The fire behavior triangle has three components: Weather, Topography and Fuel
Take some time today to learn how #weather influences #wildfire behavior from the World of Wildland Fire!
📹youtube.com/watch?v=cqiTwD8m…
@FRAMESgov @fireecology
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Dont forget to join our Fire Ecology Learning Lab (FELL) training!
It is TOMORROW, Jan 26th at 10am. Email us now to register! 👩🏫 SWFireConsortium@gmail.com
Learn about FELL here: swfireconsortium.org/why-use…
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As we begin 2026, it is an apt time to reflect, and we would like to hear from you—our followers and partners—on wildland fire work in 2025!
Let us know how we can support you by filling out this, less than, 5-minute survey.
qualtrics.nau.edu/jfe/form/S…
Thank you! 🌟
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Did you get our last newsletter?? 🔥
Find and share it here! ➡️ swfireconsortium.org/southwe…
Sign up for our next newsletter here. Newsletters include webinar announcements and biyearly notices of #wildfire publications. swfireconsortium.us4.list-ma…
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Learn about aspen and #wildfire!
Register now for our Jan 27th webinar that reviews a case study from south-central Utah which used high-intensity, high-severity prescribed fire coupled with conifer thinning to improve aspen ecosystem health.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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We hope you are having a good start to the New Year 🌟
If you haven't already, it's a good time to sign up for our newsletter! We produce two: a quarterly one that features resources and a biyearly one that lists #wildfire science pubs.
See more here!➡️ swfireconsortium.org/southwe…
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Northern Arizona University School of Forestry is hiring!: Ten year track forest ecology and management position is open, through Jan. 20 ⬇️
loom.ly/4HCtXX4
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We co-published "After Wildfire: A Guide for AZ Communities" with help from Eliza Kretzmann Consulting. They are taking on new projects for 2026. Check out their flyer below. And check out our #AZ #wildfire guide here: loom.ly/If9HM8c
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Check out these 2026 Field Tech positions with the Great Basin Institute’s Native Seed Program. Jobs run April-September, and pay is $22.50/hour plus health benefits.
Learn more! 🌟 loom.ly/OSPdMxE
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Met Burner Bob at #FireCon2025!
We are leading sessions tomorrow with our fellow @FireScienceGOV Fire Exchange Networks! Join us to learn about the most pressing issues in #wildfire at a special session as well in a fire circle on collaboration and communication! 🔥
@fireecology
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#wildlandfirefighter #jobs! Check out the link below and don't wait to apply! Positions are closing soon! 🔥
loom.ly/-lG1UHQ
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#Wildlandfire #Jobs!
#NewMexico Forestry @EmnrdNM is hiring a Community Wildfire Defense Program Manager 🌲🔥
Apply now! ✨
loom.ly/og1oLM0
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Discover how meaningful place-based science can be 🌵⛰️🏡
Help students build a deeper understanding of fire ecology through interactive lessons, data analysis, and field-based learning -- take a look at our FELL Curricula or send it to an educator in #Arizona #NewMexico 🧑🏫👏
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Learn about the hydrologic cycle and how it affects forests in the Southwest! 🌧️
This working paper, coproduced by @ERI_NAU, summarizes research relevant to understanding the effect of restoration treatments on the hydrologic cycle
📖 swfireconsortium.org/wp-cont…
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Submission deadline for presentations, workshops, and special sessions has been extended for the 4th International #Smoke Symposium, March 23-27, 2026 in Tallahassee, FL. The deadline is now Wed, November 26, 2025. Full details at buff.ly/riyAtkd #Wildfire #AirQuality
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We're hosting a webinar on Monday the 24th (10:00 AM MST) on the Fire Ecology Learning Lab. This environmental education curriculum has free activities for anyone engaging with youth about wildfire and land management. Scan the QR code or visit tinyurl.com/Nov-FELL-Trainin… to sign up.
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Last week we attended #Southwest Society for Ecological Restoration's annual meeting in Las Cruces #NewMexico. ⛰️
We gave a talk on our #wildfire educational materials. Learn more: loom.ly/aTg9Be0
Pictured: Our hike near @TheJornada @nmsu with board member Doug Cram 🥾
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The #Southwest Vegetation Managers Association Annual Meeting in #Tucson🌵
We learned about #buffelgrass removal to reduce fire risk &conserve the #SonoranDesert, Fountain Grass, Buffelgrass's equally evil cousin
🎥Lean about buffelgrass: loom.ly/_6-ojsU (*skip to 20:09)
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