Virginia Forests, a publication of the Virginia Forestry Association, released a summer issue featuring fire in Virginia.
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Update Publication: Using Fire to Improve Wildlife Habitat
The North Carolina State Extension publication Using Fire to Improve Wildlife Habitat has been updated and rereleased.
Continue ReadingNew Publication: Restoring Fire to Long-Unburned Pine-Dominated Stands on Georgia Private Lands
A new publication from the University of Georgia provides an overview of how fire behaves in forest stands and discusses techniques for preparing for and implementing prescribed burns in long-unburned stands.
The publication is intended for landowners who own or manage natural or artificially regenerated pine stands who may have multiple management objectives where burning could be incorporated into management to meet those objectives, including managing for wildlife habitat, fuel reduction, aesthetics, etc.
Continue ReadingNew Fact Sheet: Using Drones with Infrared Capabilities to Monitor Fire Behavior
A new fact sheet from Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service covers how landowners and land managers can incorporate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)’s, or drones into fire operations to make burns safer and easier to conduct.
Continue ReadingNew Fact Sheet: Blowing in the Wind: Advantages of Longleaf Pine in Wind Storms
America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative’s Longleaf Partnership Council has released a new communications fact sheet, Blowing in the Wind: Advantages of Longleaf Pine in Wind Storms. This publication demonstrates the benefits of longleaf pine during windstorms such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
This windstorm fact sheet is the second in a series of communications documents that was requested by the LPC in Fall 2017 to demonstrate how longleaf pine can outperform other pine species during natural disasters. The first communications document, Longleaf Resiliency: Insects and Pests, was released in 2019.
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