In addition to hosting more than two dozen webinars that have been viewed by thousands of people, in the last four years the program has facilitated community preparedness partnerships and landscape planning processes.
Learn about plants that can help you reduce the risk of fire while also creating an attractive environment. See why landscape maintenance and plant placement are just as critical as plant selection.
Since 2018, a total of 6,500 tons of fine fuels have been removed during off-season grazing, removing biomass that would otherwise burn in a rangeland wildfire in the 23,000 acres of public lands in Malheur County.
OSU Extension foresters helped recruit and train a group of forest technicians who have completed 241 forest management plans representing 143,683 acres, primarily in Baker, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa counties.
John Punches |
Mar 2024 |
Impact story
Credit: Central Oregon Fire Prevention Cooperative (Cropped from original)
OSU Extension and Oregon State Fire Marshal co-facilitated project organization, script writing, reviewing, filming and collection of previous footage to craft six videos developed in both English and Spanish.
Ariel Cowan |
Mar 2024 |
Impact story
Credit: Yuri Arcurs, stock.adobe.com (Cropped from original)
This curriculum package teaches students to help protect their communities from wildfire. They also learn about careers in natural resources.
Kara Baylog, Jennifer Payne, Herb Johnson, Yasmeen Hossain, Christopher Adlam, Ben Ho |
Mar 2024 |
Extension Catalog publicationPeer reviewed (Orange level)
Stories of Fire was created for media covering wildfires and related topics in Oregon with a broad goal to increase mutual learning between Oregon journalists and fire scientists to improve science-based coverage of wildfire events and issues.
Emily Jane Davis, Hollie Smith, Christopher Adlam, Carrie Berger, Dan Morrison |
Sep 2023 |
PublicationPeer reviewed (Gray level)
The Extension Fire Program uses education, outreach, and boundary spanning partnerships to foster the resiliency of communities and landscapes to wildfire at scale. Learn more!
Carrie Berger, Emily Jane Davis |
May 2023 |
Publication
Oregon State University researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that contributes to the ashy or smokey flavors in wine made with grapes exposed to wildfire smoke.