These before-and-after panorama photos illustrate thinning, mastication, and prescribed burning landscape treatments being applied in the Lakewood Southeast Project to restore pine barrens and other Northern Dry Forest types on…
Additional resources available on WeatherSHIELD - Colin McFayden presented about WeatherSHIELD at the Spring 2017 Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Access the recordings of his talk and PowerPoint.
The LANDFIRE program delivers dozens of spatial datasets representing historic fire regimes, current vegetation, current fuels and much more. Each of these datasets labels more than 9 billion 30m pixels…
Fire is a natural part of the ecosystems in the Great Lakes region. Several factors including harvesting, insect outbreaks, and fire suppression have had an impact on these ecosystems. Of…
Lowland brushlands in Minnesota are disturbance-dependent ecosystems that provide habitat for 80 wildlife species on the MN DNR Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) list, nearly half of which are…
Prescribed fire in pine stands, tree mortality and the response of insects and pathogens: Fire injury can kill older pine trees outright, creating breeding material for bark and wood boring…