Santa Rita Experimental Station Field Trip, AFE's Fire in the Southwest Conference, Tucson

Latest News     Australian ecologists invite you to submit a paper for the Fire Ecology Symposium at the 10th International Congress of Ecology: Ecology in a Changing Climate - Two Hemispheres, One Globe.  To view the invitation, click here.   Two new fire ecology books have be published recently by the University of California Press. Living With Fire - Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century by Sara E. Jensen and Guy R. McPherson and Introduction to Fire in California by David Carle.   Check out the latest issue of Fire Ecology, AFE’s online journal... Vol. 3, No. 2 - Special Issue on Wildland Fire Use   The '88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, Sept. 22-27, 2008 hosted by The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) and the National Park Service 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, in association with AFE and a consortium of partners. Call for Papers, Posters, and Special Sessions is now open!   The California Section of the Association for Fire Ecology (CAFE) and Humboldt State University present, the Pacific Coast Fire Conference: Changing Fire Regimes, Goals, and Ecosystems. December 1-4, 2008. San Diego, California. Call for Abstracts deadline is August 4th - read more...   Tall Timbers 24th Fire Ecology Conference Future of Prescribed Fire: Public Awareness, Health, and Safety. 11-15 January, 2009, Tallahassee, FL.   ANNOUNCING AFE's 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Fire as a Global Process. November 30 - December 4, 2009, Savannah, Georgia, USA. For more information, or to become involved on the steering or program committees, contact Dr. Sandra Rideout Hanzak at: sandra.rideout-hanzak[at]ttu.edu.   AFE Board Member, Melanie Miller, gives invited paper on the San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management at the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference in Sevilla, Spain...read more.   Congratulations to Dr. Leon Neuenschwander on receiving the 2007 AFE Harold Biswell Lifetime Achievement Award and to Dr. Alan Long on receiving the 2007 AFE Herbert Stoddard, Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award. ...read more   L to R: Dr. Brian Oswald, Dr. Scott Stephens, Dr. Alan Long, 2007 Stoddard Award Winner, and Dr. Leon Neuenschwander, 2007 Biswell Award Winner   Congratulations also to Chris Powell, recipient of the SAFE 2007 Graduate Student Excellence Award, Josh  Switzer, SAFE 2007 Undergraduate Student Excellence Award, and Valerie Kurth, SAFE Student Poster Prize winner at the Fire in the Southwest Conference.   L to R: Valerie Kurth, Josh Switzer, Dr. Leon Neuenschwander, 2007 Biswell Award Winner, and Chris Powell.   AFE members adopted The San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress...read more    Order your copy of Fire in California's Ecosystems, edited by AFE's Neil Sugihara, Jan van Wagtendonk, Kevin Shaffer, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, and Andi Thode with a forward by James Agee and contributions from many AFE members. Fire ecology students be sure to check out the Student Association for Fire Ecology (SAFE).

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