Smoke management from prescribed fires is a big concern for metropolitan areas. Learn how Kansas developed a smoke management plan and developed tools for burners to use to protect air quality while meeting land management objectives.
Watch Sam Fuhlendorf describe why fie is an integral part of range management and how that perspective can advance the field. This was a recorded address for the plenary session of the Society for Range Management’s 66th annual meeting in Oklahoma City.
Watch Tom Swetnam describe how fire management is changing in response to climate change. This was a recorded address for the plenary session of the Society for Range Management’s 66th annual meeting in Oklahoma City.
Watch Dale Rollins describe how fire in rangelands has changed. This was a recorded address for the plenary session of the Society for Range Management’s 66th annual meeting in Oklahoma City.
This is a recorded presentation by a team of Kansas State University partners involved in the development and implementation of the Flint Hills smoke management plan. This presentation was sponsored by the Oak Woodlands Fire Consortium and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange.
Landowner discussion panel at the Patch Burn Grazing Annual meeting, Elmdale, KS, August 28-29, 2012. Landowner panel:Jane Koger, Bill Sprouls, and Ed Koger. Panel moderated by Brian Obermeyer.
Watch presentations by Sam Fuhlendorf, John Briggs, Dirac Twidwell, and Larry Sanders recorded at the Society for Range Management Meeting in Orlando Florida in February 2014. The Workshop centered on the topic of juniper encroachment was capped off with a discussion on how to apply the science to policy.
You can find a nice detailed presentation on mixing heights and transport winds from the Tallgrass Prairie and Savanna consortium here. A good presentation for burn boss trainees, prescribed fire specialists and fire ecologists.
Fire history in the Great Plains is complex. Tree ring analysis reveals the influence of topography and weather, but also the importance of human historical events and milestones in the frequency of fire. Mike Stambaugh of the University of Missouri Tree Ring lab discussed his work to understand fire history in the Great Plains at Missouri State University’s Biology Department seminar series
