Lake States Fire Science Consortium

Upcoming Events

May 19: NE-MW Regional Prescribed Fire Council Virtual Networking Forum Wednesday May 19th 2021

June 1: Fire & Fuels Monitoring Workshop - Virtual

Workshop

7^th Annual Burning Issues Workshop

21^st Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting

Conducted virtually

the mornings of

February 2^nd- 3^rd- 4^th, 2021

Day One - Tuesday February 2, 2021 from 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern

Part One - Panel onWildland Fire COVID Compromises

Panelists –

Kevin Reese, Deputy Fire Staff Officer, USFS - HMNF

Keith Murphy, Fire Management Specialist, MI DNR

Tamiko Rehagen, Volunteer Firefighter, Mattawan Fire Department

Dakota Szczepanski, Wildland Fire Technician – FCTC, Part time firefighter

Kyle Martin, Stewardship Field Manager, Kalamazoo Nature Center

Steve Cross, Private Consultant, NRCS Tech Service Provider, Retired MI DNR

Recording Options for COVID Panel –

MP4 or YouTube

There is not a PDF of this Panel

Reference Materials

Registrant Questions Link

Chat Box Link

Part Two - Presentations

Building and sustaining situational awareness – Clark McCreedy, USDI-Fish and Wildlife Service

Rx Fire Science: management and science needs for fire-prone Great Lakes ecosystems – Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Science and Senior Scientist, Tall Timbers Research Station

Combined Recording Options for McCreedy and Varner - MP4 or YouTube

Clark McCreedy (starts 00:19:00 and ends at about 00:46:00)

Morgan Varner (starts 00:51:27 and ends at about 01:35:50)

PDF of Presentations

Clark McCreedy Presentation

Morgan Varner Presentation

Reference Materials

Situational Awareness References from Clark McCreedy

Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda

Day Two - Wednesday February 3, 2021 from 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern

Presentations and Panel on Fire History in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region:

Climate and fire in the Midwest across millennia: What the paleorecord tells us - David Nelson, Associate Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Applied historical ecology of fire from Michigan and beyond - Michael C. Stambaugh, Associate Research Professor, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri

Role of frequent, widespread historical surface fires in Lake States pine forests - Jed Meunier, Disturbance Ecologist, WI DNR, Division of Forestry

Rethinking peatland fire: Fire history of peatlands in the Great Lakes Region - Colleen M. Sutheimer, Graduate Research Assistant, SILVIS Lab, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panel on Fire History in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region

Combined Recording Options for Fire History Session - MP4 or YouTube

David Nelson (starts 00:07:00 and ends at about 00:39:05)

Michael C. Stambaugh (starts 00:39:21 and ends at about 01:08:55)

BREAK (01:09:00 to 01:19:28)

Jed Meunier (starts 01:19:29 and ends at about 01:50:11)

Colleen M. Sutheimer (starts 01:50:12 and ends at about 02:16:32)

BREAK (02:16:33 to 02:29:25)

Panel on Fire History (02:29:25 to 03:01:18)

PDFs of Presentation

David Nelson Presentation

Michael Stambaugh Presentation (Not Available)