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Workshop

8^th Annual Burning Issues Workshop

&

22^nd  Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting

 

Conducted virtually

the mornings of

February 1^st- 2^nd, 2022

 

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The 22nd Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting and 8th Annual Burning Issues Workshop: an annual wildland fire workshop designed to enable land managers, researchers, resource specialists, biologists, ecologists and fire practitioners an opportunity to hear and learn from different areas of expertise in a format designed to identify gaps in knowledge and communication, and work toward solutions to issues that complicate our collective wildland fire work.

Day One included: 1) Growing Season Burning Session presentations, and a panel discussion; 2) Smoke Management presentation.

Day Two included two presentation/panel sessions: 1) Lessons Learned from the Brittle Fire Incident; 2) Michigan’s Certified Burn Manager Program - Past, Present, and Future.

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Day One - Tuesday February 1, 2022 from 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern

Viewing Options for Day One Recording of presentations and panel discussion – MP4 or YouTube

Growing Season Burning Session

Using fire throughout the year - a personal journey on “thinking like a fire-dependent ecosystem” – Jack McGowan-Stinski, Lake States Fire Science Consortium

Prescription and weather considerations - Steve Cross, Burn Contractor (and retired MI DNR)

Smoke - applying what you know about dormant season smoke to the growing season - Trent Wickman, USDA Forest Service

Opening the burn window at Toledo Metroparks (NW Ohio, Oak Openings) - LaRae Sprow, Toledo Metroparks

Opening the burn window at Spread Eagle Barrens (NE WI, barrens) - Carly Lapin, WI DNR and Henry Sullivan, WI DNR

Panel Q&A – discussion on growing season fire

Steve Cross

Carly Lapin

Jack McGowan-Stinski

LaRae Sprow

Henry Sullivan

Trent Wickman

Moderated by Craig Maier, TPOS Fire Science

 

Michigan's Smoke Management Plan - Jenifer Dixon, MI EGLE

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Day Two - Wednesday February 2, 2022 from 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern

Viewing Options for Day Two Recording of presentations and panel discussion – MP4 or YouTube

Brittle Fire Session

Lessons Learned from the Brittle Fire - Kevin Reese, USFS Huron-Manistee

Panel Q&A - the importance of partnerships and public communication before, during and after a fire incident

Kevin Reese, USFS Huron-Manistee

Josh Veal, USFS Huron-Manistee

Lee Osterland, MI DNR

Eric Toman, Ohio State University

Catherine Koele, WI DNR

Moderated by Laura Judge

 

Increasing Michigan Burn Capacity

Michigan’s Certified Burn Manager Program: Past, Present, and Future - Glenn Palmgren, MI DNR

Panel Q&A - representatives of the DNR, private contractors, and NGOs discuss the need, benefits, and concerns for the Certified Burn Manager Program

Glenn Palmgren, MI DNR

Don Johnson, retired MI DNR

Steve Woods, Huron Pines

David Mindell, Plantwise LLC

James Gray, Natural Capital Forestry

Moderated by Andy Vander Yacht, MSU

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