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Fueling Collaboration Panel - "Phenology of Fire"

Phenology of Fire: Listening to the Plants and Animals

PANEL DISCUSSION: Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET

Season of fire. Opening the burn window. Both of these focus on one of the elements that make up a fire regime – frequency, intensity/severity, extent/scale, and seasonality. Decades of spring-and/or autumn-centric fire can cause a site or landscape to respond very differently than when burned repeatedly across all flammable seasons. Summer burns can produce differing fire effects including increased species richness averages, biomass, and stem counts (especially forbs), and breaking up the plant species dominance resulting from dormant season burn windows. Our panelists will bring fresh voices to how we can learn from listening to our fire-dependent plants and animals and let the fire effects lead us toward desired outcomes.

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This panel discussion has been approved for 1.5 Category 1 CFE's by the Society of American Foresters.

This series was developed by:

the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station and the Joint Fire Science Program’s Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, Lake States Fire Science Consortium, North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange, Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium, Southern Fire Exchange, and Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium.

Feel free to contact any of the organizations listed above with questions about this series. For website or registration questions, please reach out to Eric Evenson at NAFSEhelp@gmail.com.

Earlier Event: December 14
Fueling Collaboration Panel: The Future is Smoky
Later Event: February 5
Smoke TOOLS Pre-Burning Issues Workshop

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