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Workshop
6th Annual Burning Issues Workshop
&
20th Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting
February 4 & 5, 2020
To Access PDF’s of Presentations
and for email contact of Presenters,
Please Scroll Down to the Two-Day Agenda
and Click On Any Title or Name
Links to Reference Materials for Remote Sensing
can be found below the Two-Day Agenda
Focus on Change - Your 20/20 Fire Vision
Agenda for the Two Days
DAY ONE - Tuesday February 4, 2020 |
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0800 – 0850 (50 minutes) |
Arrival and check-in |
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0850 – 0900 (10 minutes) |
Jack McGowan-Stinski, Lake States Fire Science Consortium |
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Annual Update and Passing of the Torch to New Chair |
Dave Borneman to Glenn Palmgren, Michigan Prescribed Fire Council |
0900 – 0910 (10 minutes) |
Growing Season Fire: Some thoughts on the paradigm shift |
Jack McGowan-Stinski, Lake States Fire Science Consortium |
0910 – 1010 (60 minutes) |
KEYNOTE: Hindsight is 20-20: Lessons learned from twenty-eight years of restoring fire to an urban pine barrens preserve |
Neil Gifford, Conservation Director, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission and Community Representative, North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange |
1010 – 1040 (30 minutes) |
Break |
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1040 – 1210 (90 minutes) |
Climate and Social Decision-making for Wildland Fire Management |
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It’s just a matter of time: Considering weather and climate in burning issues |
Todd Ontl & Chris Swanston, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science |
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Sustaining fire-adapted forest ecosystems through collective management: Social barriers and facilitators to cross-boundary coordination |
Paige Fischer, University of Michigan |
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Does Diversity Matter? Social-ecological models of land managers and mesophication |
Christopher L. Hoving, Adaptation Specialist, Michigan DNR and Boone and Crockett Fellow, Michigan State University |
1210 – 1310 (60 minutes) |
Lunch |
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1310 – 1340 (30 minutes) |
PANEL for Climate and Social Decision-making |
Swanston, Fischer, Hoving |
1340 – 1440 (60 minutes) |
Non-Agency Burn Capacity PART ONE |
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Organized Chaos: Coordinating Large Scale Burning at the Forest Preserves District of Cook County |
John McCabe, Director of Resource Management, Forest Preserves of Cook County |
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Costs, Benefits and Opportunities: Starting a burn program from scratch |
Steven Woods, Conservation Stewardship Director, Huron Pines |
1440 – 1510 (30 minutes) |
Break |
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1510 – 1610 (60 minutes) |
Non-Agency Burn Capacity PART TWO |
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Building Prescribed Fire Capacity at the Land Conservancy of West Michigan: Successes and Challenges |
Justin Heslinga, Land Conservancy of West Michigan |
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Todd Aschenbach, Grand Valley State University |
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1610 – 1650 (40 minutes) |
PANEL for Non-Agency Burn Capacity |
McCabe, Woods, Heslinga, Aschenbach |
1650 – 1700 (10 minutes) |
Day One Wrap Up |
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1700 – 1900 (120 minutes) |
Michigan Prescribed Fire Council HAPPY HOUR |
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DAY TWO - Wednesday February 5, 2020 |
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0800 – 0810 (10 minutes) |
Welcome Back |
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0810 – 0820 (10 minutes) |
An Overview of the Indiana Prescribed Fire Council |
Jarred Brooke, Extension Wildlife Specialist, Purdue University |
0820 – 1000 (100 minutes) |
Fire on the Landscape PART ONE |
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Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Fire Analyst, Alaska Fire Science Consortium |
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Exploring How to Use the New Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System |
Brianna Schueller, Fire Technology Transfer Specialist, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Wildland Fire Management RD&A |
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Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Fire Analyst, Alaska Fire Science Consortium |
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1000 – 1030 (30 minutes) |
Break |
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1030 – 1130 (60 minutes) |
Fire on the Landscape PART TWO |
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Changing seasons and changing perceptions: Making a case for growing-season prescribed fire in Indiana. |
Jarred Brooke, Extension Wildlife Specialist, Purdue University |
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Brian Stearns and Matt Malesic, USDA Forest Service |
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1130 – 1210 (40 minutes) |
PANEL for Fire on the Landscape |
Ziel, Schueller, Brooke, Stearns and Malesic |
1210 – 1310 (60 minutes) |
Lunch |
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1310 – 1330 (20 minutes) |
Breakout Guidelines and getting situated into breakout rooms |
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1330 – 1530 (120 minutes) |
Concurrent Breakouts |
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1530-1550 (20 minutes) |
Short Break and Move Back To Auditorium |
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1550 – 1620 (30 minutes) |
Breakout Summaries to whole audience |
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1620 – 1630 (10 minutes) |
Workshop Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
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Reference Materials for Remote Sensing:
Beginner_Guide_to_VIIRS_Imagery_Data
QuickGuide_GOESR_DayLandCloudFireRGB_final
VIIRS_Active_Fire_Quick_Guide_v6
VIIRS_data_tutorial_update_Jan_2018
VIIRS_Day_Land_Cloud_Fire_RGB_Quick_Guide_10182018
VIIRS_Fire_Temperature_RGB_Quick_Guide_10182018
For any questions please contact Jack McGowan-Stinski, mcgowan-stinski.1@osu.edu, 989-287-1734, or Craig Maier, cmaier.tpos.firescience@gmail.com
Organizers and Planning Team:
Michele Richards – Michigan Army National Guard
Craig Maier –Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium
Jack McGowan-Stinski – Lake States Fire Science Consortium
Ryan Koziatek – Kalamazoo Nature Center
Paul Charland – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Dave Borneman – Natural Area Preservation (NAP) Manager City of Ann Arbor
Dan Zay – Natural Resources Conservation Service
Paul Mayer - Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Coordinator
Glenn Palmgren – Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Offered by the Michigan Army National Guard - Fort Custer National Training Center, Michigan Prescribed Fire Council, the Lake States Fire Science Consortium, and the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium. The North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange is also supporting this Workshop.
