Using Prescribed Fire in Natural Resource Management webinars

When:
April 9, 2019 @ 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00
2019-04-09T20:00:00-04:00
Where:
online
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Allyson Muth
814 865-3208

Penn State Extension will hold two one-hour Prescribed Fire in Natural Resources Management webinars on April 9th at noon and 7 p.m.

Fire has played a significant role in shaping many North American ecosystems and prescribed burning is being more widely used to meet various land management objectives. Creating early successional habitat for wildlife, increasing landscape diversity, and improving oak management are among the reasons for increased use of fire in eastern forests.

Fire exclusion has been linked to species composition changes in once fire-prone upland oak ecosystems that are implicated in causing cooler, wetter, closed-canopy conditions with increased abundance of fire-sensitive trees limiting oak regeneration.

Jesse Kreye, Assistant Professor of Fire and Natural Resources Management at Penn State will discuss these topics and present some of their research findings that highlight how variability in moisture dynamics and flammability across species’ litter and other species’ traits may help explain the dynamics of fire-dependent ecosystems and the challenges for restoration in fire-excluded sites in the eastern US.

To take part in the webinars, go to https://psu.zoom.us/j/820653929

Recorded presentations and handouts will be available at: http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/centers/private-forests/outreach/pa-forests-web-seminar-center