Prescribed Burning Slide 1 Lighting a strip headfire

Prescribed Burning Slide 1 -Lighting a strip headfire

Slide 2 -Open range condition

Slide 3 -reserved shelterwood

Slide 4 -scorch of smaller trees in gaps

Slide 5 -drainages are not plowed out

Slide 6 -fire goes out in bottom

Slide 7 -reserved shelterwood

Too Much Fire Slide 8 -Too much fire

Slide 9 -PDSI for MS

Slide 10 -Changes in PDSI and Kpa for MS

Slide 11 -Scorch in Slash pine

Slide 12 -Dead trees and injured tops

Slide 13 -Intense burn in sapling longleaf

Slide 14 -headfire rapidly increases in intensity

Slide 15 -waxmyrtle, a highly flammable shrub, ignites Waxmyrtle, a highly flammable shrub, ignites

Slide 16 -the fire is at maximum intensity

Slide 17 -fuels begin to be exhausted

Slide 18 -the fire is nearly out

Slide 19 -Scorch in sapling longleaf

Slide 20 -Buds survive

Slide 21 -Unburned trees more healthy

Slide 22 -Too little fire Too Little Fire

Slide 23 -Low intensity fires don’t work

Slide 24 -Waxmyrtle graph

Slide 25 -Brush development

Legal Issues Slide 26 -Legal Issues

Slide 27 -Why burn? Why Burn?

Slide 28 -No herbage

Slide 29 -Fire opens up the understory

Slide 30 -Recovery in understory

Slide 31 -Legumes

Slide 32 -Must reapply fire

Urban/Forest Interface Slide 33 -Urban/Forest Interface

Slide 34 -Alternatives, pine straw mgt

Slide 35 -Alternatives, livestock grazing

Slide 36 -Alternatives, mechanical control

Slide 37 -Alternatives, herbicides

Fuel reduction Slide 38 -Conclusions Wildlife management Access and aesthetics Loss in growth & mortality Liability Poor results