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…
Join Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest staff for a Field Tour (includes five stops) to observe and discuss this landscape effort to restore and manage pine barrens and northern dry forest on…
Aspen is a ubiquitous component of many forest types across northeastern North America, including many fire-dependent ecosystems, and contributes a range of ecosystem services from habitat provisioning to fiber supplies.…
Donald Brown School of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia / Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Parsons, West [email protected]
This wildland fire workshop was designed to enable land managers, researchers, resource specialists, biologists, ecologists and fire practitioners an opportunity to hear and learn from different areas of expertise in…
Presentation gives an overview of several escaped prescribed fires in the Lake States dating back to the infamous 1980 Mack Lake Fire and the most recent escape on the Superior…
Jed Meunier and Nathan S. Holoubek (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Science Services), Peter M. Brown (Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research), and Tricia A. Gorby-Knoot (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Forestry)[email protected]
Fire-dependent communities are declining worldwide due to fire suppression and land development, reducing biodiversity. Open pine barren and savannah ecosystems (‘pine barrens’ hereafter) are a classic example of fire-dependent ecosystem…