We invite your proposals for special sessions, workshops and trainings, oral and poster presentations, fire circles, and attached meetings. Presenters will have the option of selecting a virtual or in-person presentation. We are especially interested in proposals that address the Fire Congress theme, “Life with Fire: Prescriptions for Resilience.”
We are focused on the following key considerations while planning for the 2021 Fire Congress:
- Being flexible and accommodating virtual presentations as much as possible
- Creating cohesive sets of presentations where speakers are discussing topics that are closely related, either through special sessions or better organization of general sessions
- Encouraging special sessions on a variety of wildland fire topics and helping organizers connect with new speakers
- Broadening participation and facilitating collaborations between diverse speakers and attendees
- Encouraging presentations related to applied science and pairing researcher-manager presentations in the “Science and Management” track
- Creating opportunities for onsite and virtual participants to interact with one another via online discussion and 1-to-1 meetings
- Recording presentations so participants can have access to content after the event
Life with Fire: Prescriptions for Resilience
More prescribed fire, cultural burning, and beneficial wildfires are urgently needed to manage the escalating magnitude of wildfire impacts on society and to achieve conservation goals in landscapes around the world. The 2021 Fire Congress will bring the wildland fire community together to discuss strategies to sustain native wildlife and biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services and resilience, mitigate climate change impacts, and reduce undesirable impacts on human and natural communities. Participants will be encouraged to share and explore proactive solutions that connect research to desired fire management outcomes.
Topics relevant to the Congress theme, along with a variety of wildland fire topics will be considered for acceptance.
- Adaptive Management
- Aquatic and Riparian Resources
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Burned Area Rehabilitation
- Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
- Conservation
- Cultural and Historical Resources
- Cultural Burning and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Ecological and Social Resilience
- Fire Behavior
- Fire Ecology and Effects
- Fire History
- Fuels Management
- Fire Regimes
- Human Dimensions and Social Systems
- Landscape-level Fire Management
- Managing Fire for Multiple Objectives
- Organizational Diversity
- Plant Population / Community Ecology and Evolution
- Prescribed Fire Science
- Restoration / Succession
- Risk Management
- Soils and Biogeochemical Cycles
- Technological Innovations
- Wildland Fire and COVID-19
- Wildland Urban Interface
- Wildlife Management
