The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is planning to conduct a prescribed burn today, February 18th, 2025 at the Mississippi ...

The Wisconsin DNR has announced fire management crews will begin conducting prescribed burns on DNR properties throughout the ...

MADISON, Wis. (WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES PRESS RELEASE) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ...

Functional Ecology 37: 1449-1462. The longleaf pine (LLP) savanna ecosystem once covered ~92 million acres of the Southeast USA, but due to anthropogenic activities such as logging and fire ...

Many plant communities in Wisconsin, such as prairie, wetland, oak/pine barrens, and oak savanna, adapted over thousands of years to fire and would now cease to exist in their ideal state without ...

These “fire-dependent” plant communities, such as prairies, wetlands, and oak or pine barrens/savannas/woodlands developed a tolerance and eventual dependence on periodic fire, and would not ...