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The webinar will review how fire helps regulate the balance between oak forests and the three other vegetation types it interfaces with in the north central U.S.: grasslands, mesic forests…
This webinar will cover what really are "weather models" and "the grids" and how are they used. She will also go over how the various types of fire weather forecasts…
On the dry, flat, jack pine-dominated ecosystems of the northern Lake States and eastern Canada, wildfire behavior often produces narrow, remnant strips of unburned trees that provide heterogeneity on a…
Using Prescribed Fire to Regenerate and Restore Red Pine Ecosystems - Research and Examples from Minnesota
Richard Guyette, Michael Stambaugh, Dan Dey (University of Missouri - Columbia), Jay Saunders (Northern Research Station, US Forest Service) and John Lampereur (Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest)
FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) is an ecological monitoring system designed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of plot level ecological information. It includes a large selection of standard sampling…
LANDFIRE is a collection of fuels and vegetation information assembled to support the National Fire Plan and identify lands with hazardous fuel build-up or extreme departure from historical condition. Intended…
With access to a growing number of weather recording stations and the National Weather Service (NWS) National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD), Mesowest (at the University of Utah) and the Great…
An Overview of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project and Field-Based Burn Severity Assessment
Randall K. Kolka (US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, [email protected]) and Trent Wickman (US Forest Service, Superior National Forest, [email protected])
Our study of fire, vegetation, and birds at Seney NWR examines the impact of both spring and summer burns on areas that historically had abundant yellow rails. We hypothesized that…