Leopold Live: Prescribed Fire for Wildlife Management
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 24 - Prescribed Fire for Wildlife Management with Texas A&M Forest Service Firewise Coordinator Kari Hines. Leopold Live! began as a live-streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we are joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field.
Tune in here to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Resources:
Firewise Program: https://texaswildfirerisk.com/firewise
Prescribed fire video: • Prescribed Burning Explained — the Process...
Prescribed fire goal planning: https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land...
Seed mix map: https://www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/research-...
Indigenous people and fire management: https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/trib...
Fire adapted species: https://defenders.org/blog/2020/07/fi...
TAMU Forest Service burn manager course: https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/prescribedburns/
Texas Department of Agriculture burn manager course: https://texasagriculture.gov/Home/Pro...
TAMU AgriLife prescribed burn school: https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/as...
Prescribed Burn Associations: https://www.pbatexas.org/member-assoc...
Creating firebreaks: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sh...
Erosion control for firebreaks: https://extension.colostate.edu/topic...
Red-cockaded woodpecker and fire: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/br...
Game species and fire: https://southernfireexchange.org/wp-c...
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center fire management: • From Fire to Flowers: Prescribed Burns Hea...
Pest decline and fire: https://prescribed-fire.extension.org...
Ecosystem benefits of fire: https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/11/why...
Wild turkeys and fire: https://oakfirescience.com/research-b...
Public government wildland firefighter qualifications: https://www.nwcg.gov/page/how-become-...
TAMU Forest Service and wildfire: https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/WildlandFireR...
Firewise USA®: https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-re...
Elements of combustion: https://smokeybear.com/en/about-wildl...
Pollinator gardens: https://www.fws.gov/story/how-build-p...
Community safety and wildfire preparedness: https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/ProtectYourCo...
Bark beetles and wildfire: https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/th...
Ashe juniper management: • Leopold Live: Ashe Juniper Management
Plant succession: https://www.noble.org/regenerative-ag...
Tallgrass prairie conservation: https://www.grasslandgroupies.org/gra...