Prescribed Fire in the News
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- Thinning and prescribed fire treatments reduce tree mortality (Eureka Alert! AAAS, Oct. 14, 2020)
- Report: Local forests impacted greatly by lack of fire (The Wenatchee World, July 15, 2020)
- From Flames to Flowering: Prescribed Burns Are a Key Piece of Ecological Restoration at Shaw Nature Reserve (Emissourian.com, May 16, 2020)
- Researchers say thinning forests or prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss (Wildfire Today, Apr. 24, 2020)
- Timing Prescribed Fire to Maximize Longleaf Pine Growth (USDA USFS Southern Research Station, Apr. 23, 2020)
- Using Prescribed Fire to Restore and Sustain Oak Ecosystems (USDA USFS Southern Research Station, Jan. 31, 2019)
- COLUMN: The truth about wildfires and climate change (Independent Tribune, Sept. 27, 2020)
- Toe Talk: All wildland fire is not created equal (Mountain Times/Watuaga Democrat, Sept. 25, 2020)
- Answer Man: Huge forest fires possibility here, too? (Asheville Citizen Times, Sept. 24, 2020)
- There will be more wildfires. What should we do? (Opinion – The Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2020)
- Why There Are More Fires in California Than the Southeast (Catalyst, Sept. 21, 2020)
- Prescribed Burning Saved This Beloved Tulare County Park from Fire Devastation (NPR for Central California, Sept. 21, 2020)
- Why firefighting alone won’t stop western mega-fires (WBUR News, Sept. 11, 2020)
- Forest Fire Research Shows Aging Forests Put Communities At Risk (The Working Forest Newspaper, Sept. 1, 2020)
- California residents didn't want controlled burns near their homes. Some of those homes then burned in a wildfire. (USA Today, Aug. 29, 2020)
- Prescribed burns planned on the Uwharrie National Forest to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health (USFS National Forests in NC, June 23, 2020)
- Satellites Show a Decline in Fire in the U.S. Southeast (NASA Earth Observatory, May 2020)
- Prescribed Fire Science Key to Sustaining Fire We Use (Desert Research Institute, Apr. 28, 2020)
- At Hanging Rock, the forest service fights fire with fire (Winston-Salem Journal, Mar. 9, 2020)
- Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Prescribed Burns (NC State Apr. 27, 2021)
- Southern Fire Exchange: archived webinars on smoke management, air quality and weather (Southern Fire Exchange)
- Will smoke from controlled burns hurt COVID-19 patients? (South Florida Sun-Sentinel – originally in The New York Times, May 5, 2020)
- Regulation and Practice of Forest-Management Fires on Private Lands in the Southeast United States: Legal Open Burns versus Certified Prescribed Burns (Journal of Forestry, Apr. 27, 2020)
- Air Quality 101 webinar: Essential concepts and tools for prescribed burners (Southern Fire Exchange, Feb. 14, 2020)
- New podcast explains how prescribed fire helps plants, animals and people (University of Florida UF|IFAS, Jan. 11, 2021)
- The Longleaf Alliance Youtube Channel
- Southern Fire Exchange – Uniting Fire Science and Natural Resource Management
- Prescibed Burn Workshop Video (LSU Forestry and Wildlife Extension, June 23, 2020)
- 2020: A Strange Year for Prescribed Burn Training (LSU Ag Center, July 9, 2020)
- NC State Extension Forestry Prescribed Fire resources
- Wildfire Smoke Toolbox
- Southern Fire Exchange YouTube Channel
- What happens to bees after a fire? It depends on the fire (Bay Nature, Sept. 1, 2020)
- Growing-Season Prescribed Fires and Ground-Nesting Birds(Southern Fire Exchange, Sept. 2020)
- Northern Bobwhites and Fire - A Perfect Match (Southern Fire Exchange, Aug. 2020)
- Prescribed Fire and Ticks in the New Jersey Pine Barrens (USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Research Issue, May 5, 2020)
- Prescribed fires burn turtles but may help egg-laying female (The Wildlife Society, Feb. 11, 2020)
- Prescribed Burns Benefit Bees(NC State University Applied Ecology News, Jan. 29, 2020)
- NCState FireEcology Youtube Channel
- Avoiding a Florida on Fire: The importance of prescribed burns (NPR PBS WUFT, Jan. 12, 2021)
- Low-Severity Fires Protect Carbon Stores in Global Peatlands (Southern Fire Exchange, July 2020)
- New study finds indigenous people used fire to manage Utah forests over 1000 years ago (KUER 90.1 NPR Utah, Apr. 15, 2021)
- Quiet Fire: Indigenous tribes in California and other parts of the U.S. have been rekindling the ancient art of controlled burning (The Nature Conservancy, Nov. 2, 2020)
- Fire in the Forest: The Science and history of prescribed burns in the New Jersey pine barrens(Be Outdoors Appalachian Mountain Club, Sept. 30, 2020)
- Fire Ties that Bind - The Natural and Cultural Heritage of Controlled Burning (Southern Fire Exchange, Sept. 2020)
- Wildfire dilemma: Changes ahead in how the West’s forests are managed (Capital Press May 28, 2020)