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Nearly 80-acre site demonstrating differences between patterns of fire in jack-pine forests and plantation patterns created for Kirtland’s warbler habitat.
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.
Research conducted from 1960–1970 suggesting methods for controlling hazel and hardwood competition in regeneration of natural dry and dry-mesic pine forests.
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…
Mesic northern-hardwood forest where Michigan DNR combined prescribed burns and herbicide treatments to control garlic mustard over more than 70 acres.
Landscape with a relatively intact fire regime, including benchmark stands (or “pine islands”) of mixed red pine and eastern white pine.
Wildfire from October 20, 2000 that burned over 1,200 acres of old-growth hemlock–northern hardwood forest.
After the massive blowdown event of 1999, three wildfires and a prescribed burn changed the Seagull Lake landscape, producing both expected and surprising changes.
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.
Landscape management strategy designed to restore and maintain substantial acreage of early-successional and pine-barren habitat typically associated with wildfire.