The Sept. 14 breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network, a service of the CFAES School of Environment and Natural Resources, will look at being metaphorically and ecologically “Resilient Through Fire.”
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These CFAES courses are on fire (sign up!)
Hey, Ohio State students: The courses described in this story are taught during Autumn Semester. Course enrollment for Autumn Semester 2018 begins at the end of March and runs through mid- to late April. So sign up soon if you’re interested!
Students at The Ohio State University have a unique opportunity to take a two-course sequence that culminates with a real prescribed burn and certification.
The courses, offered by CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), teach about fire ecology, fire’s role in ecosystems, and managing controlled and wild fires. In the end, students prepare for and conduct a prescribed burn. Continue reading
What happens to wildlife in a wildfire; or, things we lose (and gain) in a fire
Fire plays a role in the ecology of most forests. But what does it do to the wildlife that lives there? National Geographic’s Daily News recently talked to CFAES scientist Mazeika Sullivan. (Photo: Terry Tompkins, USDA Forest Service.)
Tomorrow: How to restore fire-dependent forests?
Priscilla Nyamai, a doctoral candidate in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), presents “Is There a Role for Restoration When Fuel Reduction Is a Management Objective in Fire-dependent Forest Ecosystems? Lessons from the Northern Lake States” tomorrow (4/11) in SENR’s spring seminar series. Details. Her advisor is SENR scientist Charles Goebel, who leads the Lake States Fire Science Consortium.