Response of insectivore pollinators, plant diversity, and fuel loads to a large-scale barren and northern dry forest restoration project in northeastern Wisconsin.
OVERVIEW: The Northwest Sands Project (Moquah Barrens) located in northwest Wisconsin on the Washburn Ranger District of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is a long-term effort to restore 22,900 acres of…
This presentation is a summary of measurements taken on the Brittle and Memorable prescribed burn projects. The combined area is over 16,000 acres with the primary fuels comprised of red…
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (CNNF) began a landscape-scale effort to restore northern dry forests, especially barrens, on 37,000 acres in the Lakewood-Laona Ranger District that overlaps the Northeast Sands Ecological…
September 17: LANDFIRE 101 -- Randy Swaty, ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, offered a primer to LANDFIRE, aka “LANDFIRE 101,” that explained the suite of tools that are available to…
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…
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…