Friends of Fire Southern Fire Exchange

This episode continues the discussion of the call-when-needed prescribed fire crew model with Adam Warwick, Stewardship Manager with The Nature Conservancy. Adam is also the creator and director of The Nature Conservancy’s Southern Blue Ridge: Call-When-Needed Fire Crew. In this episode, we discuss crew recruiting, costs and funding, partnerships, equipment needs, benefits and challenges, how to overcome challenges, accomplishments, and hopes for the future. If you are interested in starting a call-when-needed crew, check out the primer below and feel free to reach out to Adam with any questions (awarwick@tnc.org).

2:15 Recruiting
8:18 Funding
12:17 Partnerships
16:54 Costs and funding
21:07 Equipment needs
25:31 Challenges
29:08 How to overcome challenges
31:15 Benefits
35:29 Accomplishments
41:46 Hopes for the future

Primer for the Call-When-Needed Crew
https://tnc.app.box.com/s/ma5d4ma9oxl9xewoi2q2wp4duv9wkmqv

Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network
http://bit.ly/SBRFLNWebsite

Considerations for Wildlife and Fire in the Southern Blue Ridge
http://www.sbrfln.com/considerations-for-wildlife--fire-in-the-southern-blue-ridge.html

The Fire Managers Guide for Blue Ridge Ecozones
http://bit.ly/BlueRidgeEcozones

This episode continues the discussion on Wild Turkeys and Prescribed Fire with Jay Cantrell and Dr. Michael Chamberlain. We discuss challenges of managing for wild turkeys, public perception of prescribed fire’s effect on turkeys, the effect of growing season / nesting season fires on turkey habitat and survival, potential effects of climate change on the bird, and the benefits and challenges of managers and researchers working together.

This is part 1 of a 2-part discussion where Jay Cantrell (Assistant Big Game Program Coordinator with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources) and Dr. Michael Chamberlain (Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia) discuss the relationship between Eastern Wild Turkeys and prescribed fire. In this episode we cover turkey population history, recent population declines and the potential causes, how to best manage for wild turkeys, and more.

Dr. Ajay Sharma, a fire researcher - Assistant Professor, at the University of Florida, and Shan Cammack, a fire practitioner - wildlife biologist and fire safety officer, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), discuss what happens when fire is removed from a fire adapted ecosystem, best management practices of reintroducing fire into long unburned pine ecosystems, the challenges and risks of the process, the "duff problem," and more.

Duffbuster 3000 Tutorial Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHf5ttJE10

Fact Sheet - Reintroducing Fire Into Long-Unburned Pine Stands: The Duff Problem:
https://southernfireexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2018-4.pdf

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