One site included three treatments (mechanical harvest, prescribed fire, and mechanical harvest plus prescribed fire) and the other included early and late-season prescribed fire; both sites included control treatments.
An untreated control (Untreated) was used for comparison of two alternative restoration treatments (1) thinning followed by prescribed fire (Thin + Burn) and (2) prescribed fire only (Burn-only).
Thirteen such prescribed burns have been carried out this year, and the Pine Barrens Commission is working on a prescribed fire management plan.
After prescribed fires, % RPC was unaffected by TSF.
In the pine-savanna of North Carolina, she learned land management and restoration techniques including prescribed fire, and eventually became a Burn Boss capable of leading prescribed fires.
Not everyone agrees that prescribed fire is the way to maintain the Long Island pine barrens.
Prescribed fires can provide burned landscapes that approximate natural fires in many ways.
Prescribed fire may extend the period between thinnings, he said, but not by much.
Prescribed fire can also be controversial, though for a different reason.
Thinning and prescribed fire can be useful tools to achieve these objectives.
Prescribed fires burned between 30% and 97% of our bird survey points.
