Lighting a Match – March 2022
Caleb Goldsmith
Views:7 views https://youtu.be/JNKSacE8deg This month on Lighting a Match, Caleb Goldsmith tells us about the trouble with Sand…
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Lighting a Match – February 2022
Meet Caleb Goldsmith, our new Director of Fire Ecology and Management, and watch as the Orianne burn crew gets creative with techniques for covering large areas with a small team.
Lighting a Match – March 2021
Ben Grunwald
Views:1 view https://youtu.be/Ydk_xRWZhvU What are pyrophytic plants? What is a mosaic burn? Learn more this month on Lighting…
Prescribed Fire
Tracy Karplus
This month’s photo is a silhouette of the landscape during a controlled burn. It was taken by our very own Ben Grunwald, Land Management Technician Crew Leader for the Longleaf Savannas Initiative.
Lighting a Match – February 2021
Ben Grunwald, Land Management Technician and Crew Lead for the Orianne Society Burn Crew, talks about what happens when burning ten years of thick, rough buildup.
Lighting a Match – January 2021
Ben Grunwald, Land Management Technician and Crew Lead for the Burn Crew at the Orianne Society, is at Moody Forest with an update on current conditions and how work conditions have changed for socially-distanced burning during Covid times.
Burning Away Tick-borne Diseases
Houston Chandler
There are many species of ticks that call the southeastern Coastal Plain home, and these species can carry a variety of pathogens, some of which are infectious to humans. Prescribed fire’s impacts on tick populations has been of interest to habitat managers for many years. Research has indicated that regular prescribed burning does, in fact, reduce tick population size when compared to unburned plots of land.
Lighting a Match: Year Round Burning
Brannon Knight
Views:94 views It is important to remember that fire doesn’t have to occur during the “traditional” months of…