Prescribed Fire as a Foundational Landscape Tool: From Campus to Residence
NDAL online session on using fire as a landscape manangement technique,in two parts.
Native Grasslands Restoration: Is Fire Needed? - Bert Harris, Ph.D. will begin by covering the Clifton Institute’s recent research on remnant Piedmont grasslands. He'll discuss how the Institute is using these results to set goals for meadow plantings and grassland restoration projects including the 50 acres that are burned annually at the Institute. He’ll then talk about the Institute’s 100-acre grassland restoration experiment that is testing eight different methods (e.g. fire, mowing, tilling, planting, herbicide) to convert non-native fields to native meadows. He'll finish by covering how even the timing of prescribed fire can affect the resulting plant communities and pollinator habitat.
Burning on the Run: Prescribed Burns in the Small Scale Landscape -Prescribed fire need not be limited to expansive ecological restorations, but can also apply to smaller scale residential and commercial properties. Fritz Reuter is the rare bird who has successfully advocated for and incorporated this highly productive tool into a small landscape design/build practice. He will demonstrate how his “burn on the run” techniques have resulted in the type of vegetative vigor that only a practice done for thousands of years - before centuries-long wholesale suppression - could re-offer. He will also discuss how he advocates for and explains the benefits of prescribed burning to his clients.
Time: 14::00 ET/19:00 GMT
