On state game areas in Michigan, oak forests and savanna are highly valued by managers and hunters alike. Managers are aware of the problem and aware that more prescribed fire is key to long-term sustainability of this valued resource. So why are managers not burning at a scale to match the threat? Oak is fading from the landscape. The ecological process has been well documented, but the social processes that result in more or less use of prescribed fire within land management organization is less well known. What social forces result in under-disturbed oak forests, and what interventions in…
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Complex System Dysfunction: Planning for Oak, but not Burning for Oak.
On state game areas in Michigan, oak forests and savanna are highly valued by managers and hunters alike. Managers are aware of the problem and aware that more prescribed fire is key to long-term sustainability of this valued resource. So why are managers not…