ReSHAPE Program Updates: Improvements and Opportunities The ReSHAPE program, and the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG) continue to expand and improve to better support land managers, researchers, and policy makers. Recent updates make [...]
The Science Delivery and Application group at ERI is planning to participate in the 36th annual Flagstaff Festival of Science and the Colorado Plateau Biennial Workshop, both occurring this September. The Science Delivery team’s [...]
ERI’s Science Delivery and Application staff are leading 4FRI Stakeholder Group members to support the 4FRI Treatment Prioritization and Optimization of the 4FRI landscape, which has 2.4 million acres of NEPA-cleared restoration work in [...]
Incorporating 4FRI Stakeholders into Wildfire Crisis Strategy Prioritization Ecological Restoration Institute staff have long supported the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) through shared leadership roles, and have providing the best available science to planning [...]
ERI’s Science Delivery team spent the winter and spring months of 2023 preparing for the May 2–4 Cross-Boundary Landscape Restoration Workshop at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. The workshop was convened by [...]
The Ecological Restoration Institute and partners are developing the 2nd Cross-Boundary Landscape Restoration Workshop! Please join a West-wide audience to work on “Adapting to a Climate Altered West;” we are gathering in Ft. Collins [...]
Effective land management requires understanding an ecosystem’s vulnerability to climate change impacts and the appropriate management responses to these threats. The ERI hosted a workshop in March 2022 for the Coronado National Forest, in [...]
This past summer, the ERI outreach crew headed to the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico to revisit a 12-year-old restoration demonstration site and explore the San Juan Canyon for a rapid assessment [...]
Building a Climate Adaptation Strategy with the Forest Service Climate change represents one of the most complex and unique challenges for natural resource management. In the Southwest, climate change contributes to changes we see [...]
