SFE Webinar: Growing-Season Prescribed Fires and Ground-Nesting Birds

*SFE Webinar: Growing-Season Prescribed Fires and Ground-Nesting Birds - Answers for Longleaf Restoration*
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A Southern Fire Exchange fire science webinar with Jim Cox from Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.
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Host Institutions: Tall Timbers Research Station, Southern Fire Exchange, Joint Fire Science Program, and the University of Florida.


Webinar Summary:
Millions of dollars have been spent over the past 20 years on reforestation of longleaf pine forests. Restoration will take time coupled with frequent and repeated application of prescribed burning. Burning is absolutely critical to restoration, but an appreciable number of individuals and groups now limit their opportunities to burn to a smaller and smaller burn window. The concern often voiced is that burning from April - July is detrimental to ground nesting/grassland birds and should be avoided. Restoration targets that require frequent burning and may not be achieved if the burn window becomes too narrow. This presentation will look at the science behind the use of fire during the "lightning season" (the months of April - July) and its effects on ground-nesting birds such as quail and Bachman’s sparrow. Following the presentation there will be time for audience Q/A with the speaker.

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Originally recorded September 2020.
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Hosted By:
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David Godwin, Ph.D., Southern Fire Exchange, University of Florida / IFAS.



Links and Resources:
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Stoddard Fire Lab Website:
https://talltimbers.org/stoddard-bird...

Lightning-season Burning: Friend or Foe of Breeding Birds
https://talltimbers.org/wp-content/up...

Pocket Guide to Pine and Grassland Birds of the Southeast Coastal Plain
https://egcpjv.org/wp-content/uploads...

Link to download the webinar presentation slides (pdf):
Coming Soon

Music: Ben Sound - Going Higher. Available at http://www.bensound.com.

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