The Southern Fire Exchange has edited and posted the recordings from the 2023 Fall meeting of the North Florida Prescribed Fire Council. You can watch all of the individual presentations on the YouTube Playlist below. The 2023 Fall meeting included presentations on weather, fire ecology, prescribed fire communication, technology and tools, and a lessons learned story.
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SFE Live from the Field: North Carolina WTREX
The recording of the newest SFE Live from the Field at the North Carolina Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX) is now available on our SFE YouTube channel!
🐾 In our “SFE Live from the Field” programs, we’re connecting with fire practitioners and scientists from across the South as they tackle management challenges, develop new knowledge, and more fire forward. Live From the Field programs are shorter and less formal than our SFE Fire Science Webinar Series. Click here to subscribe to our SFE mailing list to be notified about future SFE Live from the Field events.
🌻 In this SFE Live from the Field, Carrie McCullen, Jennifer Fawcett, and Jessica Ilse discuss their experience participating in the 2023 WTREX in eastern North Carolina. Over 14 days in early March, participants trained in wildland fire management while leading prescribed fires on over 1,000 acres. Read more about the event here.
🌾 Speakers:
Jennifer Fawcett – NC State University
Carrie McCullen – North Carolina Forest Service
Jessica Ilse, USDA Forest Service
Stephen Pyne Presentation “Between Three Fires”
Wildland fire author and historian Dr. Stephen Pyne recently gave a presentation for the Spring Creek Project with Oregon State University on the past, present, and future of wildland fire management and policy. As a prolific commentator on US wildland fire policy and management, Dr. Pyne’s presentation has relevance for audiences in the Southeast as well as the Pacific Northwest. You can watch a similar presentation hosted by SFE during the 2020 All Florida Prescribed Fire Council Meeting.
Continue ReadingLongleaf Alliance Video: Getting Started with Prescribed Fire on Private Lands
Jones Center at Ichauway Video: Longleaf Pine: Ecology and Management
Kevin McIntyre provides an overview of the natural history of longleaf pine. You’ll also learn about Ichauway’s prescribed fire program, join Brandon Rutledge for a look at a project to restore the red-cockaded woodpecker population on Ichauway, and the Center’s approach to managing mature longleaf pine forests.
Continue ReadingSFE Video: Measuring Fire Radiation
The latest SFE Southern Fire Science video features Matt Dickinson, Ph.D. an ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station in Delaware, Ohio. Matt works to help us understand the relationships between natural fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects. In this video Matt talks about his project measuring near-surface fire radiation at the 2017 multinational Prescribed Fire Science Consortium event held at Tall Timbers Research Station and Pebble Hill Plantation in North Florida and South Georgia.
Continue ReadingLearning About Burning: An Introduction to Prescribed Fire for NC Landowners
Join the Forest Stewards Guild, NC Forest Service, and other practitioners for a virtual learning experience. This video discusses the basics of prescribed fire, and the tools needed for private forest landowners to burn their own land. In this video practitioners answer frequently asked questions specifically about how fire in the mountains is ecologically beneficial.
Continue ReadingNew Video: Dobyns Bennett Pulaski Club
A new video showcases the Dobyns Bennet High School Pulaski Club. The Tennessee club is unique in offering high school students training, including S-130/190, and hands-on experience in prescribed fire.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5TLlJJPCY
Continue ReadingFire In the Great Plains Series: Why Burn?
This video is the first in a series from our friends at the Great Plains Fire Science Exchange describing fire in the Great Plains. The series features ranchers in the region and local experts discussing prescribed fire. This video focuses on the need for burning grasslands in the region.
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