RECORDING available from the May 10, 2022 webinar:
20 Years of Partnership: Lessons Learned From the South Central Fire Learning Network
In a series of short presentations, Arkansas partners recount the history and remarkable progress and accomplishments of their work together.
RECORDING available from the May 19, 2021 webinar:
Did Your Prescribed Burn Meet Your Goals and Objectives?
McRee Anderson, Beth Buchanan, Gabe De Jong and Virginia McDaniel were the presenters on the South Central FLN webinar about developing a first-order fire effects monitoring protocol.
RECORDING available from the February 17, 2021 webinar:
Lessons Learned from 12 Years of SBR FLN Fire Response Monitoring
Monitoring studies are useful for documenting changes in forest characteristics following burning, but are typically not designed to identify the mechanisms responsible for the changes. Peter Bates, Don Hagan and Adam Coates presented results from burn units that had undergone two prescribed burns in the last decade, as well as some research results that shed some light on possible mechanisms for the changes observed.
RECORDING available from the July 27, 2020 webinar:
African American Attitudes Toward & Experiences with Controlled Burning in Alabama, Florida and Georgia
Minority
landowners' considerations are often not well represented in surveys, but may
play important roles in landscapes with frequent fires from an ecological
perspective and from the standpoint of wildfire safety preparedness and
community response. In this webinar hosted by the Southern Blue Ridge FLN, La' Portia Perkins shared the findings from her master's thesis research.
RECORDING available from the June 10, 2020 webinar:
Certified Prescribed Burn Programs
In this webinar co-hosted by the FLN and Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils, Meg
Matonis shared highlights from the recent report “Insights and Suggestions for
Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs.” A panel gave overviews of programs
in states with established programs (FL, OH) and programs under development (CA,
NM, WA), followed by discussion. (Excerpts from the webinar chat are also available.)
RECORDING available from the February 12, 2020 webinar:
Potential Operational Delineations: Developing PODs Collaboratively on Mixed Ownership Landscapes
Mike Caggiano and Kit O'Connor gave this presentation on their work to other members of the FLN. (See also the publications "Collaboratively Engaging Stakeholders to Develop Potential Operational Delineations" (2019) and “Potential Operational Delineations and Northern
New Mexico’s 2019 Fire Season” (2020)).
RECORDING available from the November 19, 2019 webinar:
Rivercane: A Culturally
& Ecologically Significant Plant in the Appalachians
David Cozzo introduced the
cultural and ecological importance of rivercane (slides), and Adam Griffith spoke about
restoration projects in western North Carolina (slides) in this Southern Blue Ridge FLN
webinar.
RECORDING avaliable
from the May 29, 2019 webinar:
Hot Burns, Cold Burns, and Everything In
Between: Exploring Prescribed Burning's Impacts on Forest
Structure in the Appalachians
Jean Lorber (Conservation Scientist, The Nature
Conservancy) gave a short presentation about new fire monitoring results,
followed by case studies of individual burn units, presented by the people that
burned them, that showcased a range of fire intensities and discussed why the
units burned the way they did.