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The Gateway is for the conservation practitioner, scientist and decision-maker. Here we share the best and most up-to-date information we use to inform our work at The Nature Conservancy.
Announcements
Announcements
May 2012 LANDFIRE Bulletin
May 17 2012 - 3:12pm
News about website changes, the "new and improved" Conservation Gateway, LANDFIRE National update process, learning opportunities, new high quality maps, and Cowychee Mountain application overview. http://www.conservationgateway.org/...
LANDFIRE Presenting at SCGIS Conference
May 15 2012 - 12:00am
"Quantifying Current Ecological Condition for Your Conservation Project," an important primer for landscape managers who need information so as to do scenario planning for conservation, is the LANDFIRE workshop to be...
NEW COURSE: Working with LANDFIRE Vegetation Dynamics Models
May 9 2012 - 6:44pm
Working with LANDFIRE Vegetation Dynamics Models (3 hrs) - Introduces the LANDFIRE vegetation dynamics models and helps users adapt models to current situations. http://bit.ly/LgQ2Ss
Predicting Vegetation Change: Concepts behind vegetation modeling & use in land management
May 9 2012 - 6:31pm
Predicting Vegetation Change - This course is recommended for students who wish to learn about the concepts that lead to the development of the LANDFIRE vegetation models and how these concepts may be applied to land management questions. http://bit...
Accounting for Ecosystem Alteration Doubles Estimates of Conservation Risk in the Conterminous United States
Aug 8 2011 - 2:37pm
Previous national and global conservation assessments have relied on habitat conversion data to quantify conservation risk. However, in addition to habitat conversion to crop production or urban uses, ecosystem alteration (e.g., from logging,...
Follow TNC-LANDFIRE on Twitter
Feb 23 2011 - 4:15pm
For day-to-day announcements, updates and links to relevant articles and other posts, you can now follow us on Twitter.
LANDFIRE On The Ground: Thumbnail Stories From the Field
Jan 25 2011 - 12:21pm
Though the name includes “fire,” the LANDFIRE suite of GIS tools, dynamic vegetation models and 20+ digital spatial layers is the first complete, nationally consistent collection of resources with an ecological foundation that can be...
Webinar: Long-Term Fire Management in Colorado
Jan 5 2011 - 6:20pm
On January 14, the Southern Rocky Mountain Ecoregion (SMRE) Consortium will host a webinar featuring Mike Lewelling, Fire Management Officer for Rocky Mountain and Great Sand Dunes National Parks. He will share an overview of federal wildland fire...
Register for February and March 2011 Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges in Nebraska
Dec 28 2010 - 4:44pm
The Nature Conservancy's Fire, Landscapes and People program is seeking participants for two prescribed fire training exchanges in Nebraska in February and March 2011. The February 21 - March 6 exchange will be held in central Nebraska and the...
Winter 2011 Prescribed Fire Training Exchange
Dec 6 2010 - 4:43pm
Note: the registration deadline for this exchange is January 12, 2011; however, we expect the slots to fill up quickly so send in your form ASAP.
WHAT: The Nature Conservancy will host one Training Exchange for the trainee positions of RXB2,...
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