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InterfaceSouth Posts

The InterfaceSouth Post is an electronic message with current interface information, such as upcoming conferences or related news articles, sent out on a weekly basis through the SWUINET listserve ( click here to sign up ). Here you can sort through past InterfaceSouth Posts. You can also contact us if you want to suggest a future Post topic.

InterfaceSouth Updates

The InterfaceSouth Update is an electronic, monthly bulletin about critical wildland-urban interface issues.  The Update is sent out via the SWUINET Listserve (Click here to sign up), our electronic mailing list. Each issue is geared toward a specific interface topic, which will be noted opposite the volume and issue number, and features a current research project, upcoming event, current news article, literature abstract, and website related to that topic.

Leaves of Change

Leaves of Change is a quarterly bulletin that focuses on our science delivery activities, research projects, and partner activities. This bulletin is sent out electronically through the SWUINET listserve, which you can join by clicking here.

Presentations

The following presentations touch on a variety of interface topics.

Videos

 

Wood to Energy

This project aims to increase community understanding and discussion about the possibility of using wood for energy in the South. We are generating outreach materials for Biomass Ambassadors to use in communities across the region. The materials are currently in draft form and we are seeking input and suggestions for improving them.

Population growth in forested areas across the South could generate potential interest and a ready supply of woody biomass for energy. People often have a variety of question about using wood for energy, many of which are answered in our Fact Sheets. It often helps to see how others are using wood; our Case Studies illustrate 14 examples of utilities, industries, and facilities that use wood for energy. A number of communities in the South have a reasonable potential to sustainably harvest enough wood to power a municipal building, hospital, industry, or several thousand homes. To find out more about how much wood some communities could economically harvest and transport, click here.

Publications

These publications provide information about research and technology transfer activities of Center employees and our partners, including technical reports, journal articles, proceedings, theses/technical papers, and abstracts. Title, type of publication, and links to abstracts and on-line versions of the publications are provided below. We also have hardcopies of several publications you can request at no cost.

Note: You will need Adobe Reader to view many of these publications.

Changing Roles: WUI Professional Development Program

Natural resource agencies are being called upon to provide solutions to increasingly complex challenges at the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Communities are growing rapidly, landowners’ management goals often conflict, residents may not understand the benefits of resource management, and the resulting risks to environmental quality and human quality of life are becoming more apparent. To help meet these needs, the Southern Group of State Foresters led a partnership with the USDA Forest Service, InterfaceSouth, the University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop this WUI professional development program. This program provides state and federal natural resource agencies with a set of flexible resources to conduct their own training programs, aimed toward building skills and tools to successfully tackle WUI issues.

Decision Support Systems

These decision support systems are tools to help make your home Firewise.

Fact Sheets and Brochures

These fact sheets and brochures provide information about wildland-urban interface topics in a concise, easy-to-read format. We also have hard copies of most of these publications that you can request at no cost.

Photo Gallery

This photo gallery contains pictures that depict a wide variety of interface issues.  Note: You may download and use these pictures for non-profit, educational purposes only.