SFE Webinar: Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Prescribed Fire across the Southeastern US

**Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Prescribed Fire across the Southeastern US**

What can prescribed fire permit data reveal about fire in the SE?

Download the webinar summary here!

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A free one-hour webinar from Tall Timbers Research Station, the Southern Fire Exchange, and the University of Florida IFAS.

Presenter:
Karen Cummins, Geospatial Database Administrator, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy

Webinar Description:
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Prescribed fire is an important land conservation tool to meet ecological, cultural, and public safety objectives across terrestrial ecosystems. While estimates of prescribed burning in the U.S. exceed 11 million acres annually, tracking the extent of prescribed fire is problematic for several reasons and prevents an understanding of spatial and temporal trends in landscape patterns of prescribed fires. The overall purpose of the Southeastern US Prescribed Fire Permit Database is to temporally map and analyze the frequency of prescribed burns throughout the southeast. The database revealed that burning is highly concentrated within the southeast region, presumably reflecting local land ownership categories and associated land management objectives. These analyses provide the first region-wide summary of fine-scale patterns of prescribed fire in the United States.

Originally recorded May 2024.
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Hosted By:
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David Godwin, Southern Fire Exchange, University of Florida IFAS

Links and Resources
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Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils Prescribed Fire Use Survey Reports (scroll down)

Tall Timbers Research Station Geospatial Center

"Community of Fire StoryMap: Prescribed Burn Geodatabase for the Southeastern US"

Tall Timbers Newsletter Story About the Database:


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