About two weeks ago, WPFC attended and was a sponsor for the Northeast Midwest Regional Prescribed Fire Workshop! This workshop was for all wildland fire management partners across the 20 state NE-MW region to share region-wide, science-based, fire ecology information oriented toward expanding and maintaining the use of prescribed fire across all landscapes, jurisdictions, and
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Click below to read about Prescribed Fire Carbon Dynamics, by WI DNR Forestry Researchers Jed Meunier & Colleen M. Sutheimer. This research is for anyone interested in how Lake State’s prescribed fire implementation impacts carbon sequestration. Prescribed Fire Carbon Dynamics (FINAL)
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Fire-scar / Tree-ring network webinar! Webinar June 8, 2022! This webinar will be presented by Dr. Ellis Margolis, Research Ecologist, USGS Fort Collins Science Center and Dr. Christopher Guiterman, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado at Boulder, and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)Webinar title...
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Please see THIS FACTSHEET regarding the use of prescribed fire to manage oak regeneration. This factsheet synthesizes a lot of the recent research into a succinct infographic format for communicating fire-oak management.
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Click HERE to gain access to a pre-publication version of Effects of fire seasonality and intensity on resprouting woody plants in prairie-forest communities by Jed Meunier, Nathan Holoubek, Yari Johnson, Tim Kuhman, and Brad Strobel! This recent research conducted in part at the UW-Arboretum suggests that late summer burns may be more effective at controlling some shrub species, along
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Webinar January 11, 2022! ** Second webinar of their Fall Webinar Series **This webinar will be presented by Dr. Erica Smithwick, Penn State Hosted in partnership with the North Atlantic Fire Science ExchangeRegistration is required (link below)!!Webinar title: Firescapes of the mid-Atlantic: Challenges and opportunities for implementing prescribed burning as a land management...
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An increasing number of studies across the upper Midwest including research conducted by DNR Research Scientist, Jed Meunier, suggests that spring may not be the most effective time to conduct prescribed burns to achieve brush control. In fact, some data show spring burning can cause up to a two-fold increase in re-sprouts on some of
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