A Burning Need: The Big Picture of Fire as a Management Tool in Wisconsin
As with his position on predators, Aldo Leopold opinion on the role of fire in maintaining forests and other fire-dependent systems also changed over time. In this transformation, Leopold became an early advocate of fire as a management tool and initiated some of the first formal restoration attempts of fire-dependent communities. Many groups now are heavily invested in using prescribed fire to conserve and restore systems, primarily prairie and savanna which are greatly diminished. Rarely however, do we put our work into the context of regional or statewide opportunities and challenges. Fire ecologist Jed Meunier offers us a statewide fire needs assessment which aims to prioritize prescribed fire to maintain a full suite of fire-dependent communities in Wisconsin over the coming decades. It will also explore how Leopold’s Shack and the Sand Counties fit into this picture.
Friday Sep 19, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CDT
Friday, September 19
12:00 noon - 1:30 PM
Aldo Leopold Foundation
E13701 Levee Rd.
Baraboo
FREE
355-0279