Mesic northern-hardwood forest where Michigan DNR combined prescribed burns and herbicide treatments to control garlic mustard over more than 70 acres.
The May 5, 1980 Mack Lake Fire began when the Crane Lake prescribed burn escaped control lines, crossed M-33, caused one firefighter fatality and one civilian burn injury, and destroyed…
Cooperative effort evaluating ecological impacts of prescribed fire for fuels reduction, interactions with pests and invasive species, restoration of fire-damaged ecosystems, and ecosystem restoration.
Nearly 80-acre site demonstrating differences between patterns of fire in jack-pine forests and plantation patterns created for Kirtland’s warbler habitat.
Landscape management strategy designed to restore and maintain substantial acreage of early-successional and pine-barren habitat typically associated with wildfire.
Small fire at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula on a shallow rocky site that produced severity representing a fire-rotation disturbance, with forest-canopy mortality over much of the burned area.