Videos & Recorded Presentations
New: Series of videos produced by the Great Plains Fire Science Exchange. The series features ranchers and local experts discussing prescribed fire in the Great Plains.
New: Preserving the Tallgrass Prairie video about the role of prescribed fire in maintaining tallgrass prairie in the Great Plains, produced by Kansas State University.
New: Recorded presentations from the Oak Opening Workshop, held March 9, 2013 in Eagle, WI.
All four presentations are available at the Workshop's Vimeo Channel.
Pre-Settlement to Present: A Brief Look at the Landscape of the Southern Kettles
Matt Zine, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Managing Oak Woodland Invasives with Fire
Nate Fayram, Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium
Nasty Invasives Headed Your Way
Jerry Ziegler, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Joy Wolf, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Below are links to some of the recorded presentations from the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference.
All recorded presentations from the conference are available at the Conference Vimeo Channel.
Mixing Heights and Their Impact on Smoke Dispersion - Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office.
Bee diversity on two tallgrass prairie remnants after 22 years of management - Mike Arduser, Natural History Biologist and Insect Heritage Biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Repeated Prescribed Fires Favor Oak Regeneration in Canopy Gaps - Todd Hutchinson, Research Ecologist with USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
Large-Scale Prescribed Burning in Wisconsin: Pros, Cons, and Related Issues - Matt Zine, Conservation Biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Introduction to a select group of prairie butterflies and moths. A manager's journey attempting to understand these critters for better management outcomes. - Armund Bartz, District Ecologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Summer Burns in Michigan: Growing Season Fire in Oak Barrens, Jack Pine Barrens, and other Natural Communities - Jack McGowan-Stinski, Senior Project Scientist with Cardno JFNew.
All of these videos, and more, are on the 2013 Conference Vimeo Channel as well as our Vimeo Page.
Looking for more? Check out:
The Vimeo Page from our neighbors at the Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Consortium
The You Tube Channel from the Tallgrass Prairie Center
And the You Tube Channel from LANDFIRE