Fire Ecology Chats

Mar 20 2025 42 ep. 10 mins 49
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This podcast series by the Association for Fire Ecology explores research findings recently published in the journal, Fire Ecology.

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Episode 42: Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

Mar 20 2025 8 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Lauren Pile Knapp about how we can reopen closed forests in the eastern United States to woodlands and savannas, and reintroduce fire to those landscapes.

Episode 41: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades

Mar 06 2025 7 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Carolyn Stephen, Jamie Ladner, and Lauren Sullivan about the effects of prescribed fire on plant communities like dry woodlands, dry-mesic woodlands, and glades in Missouri, USA.

Episode 40: Crown fires remove a fire-sensitive canopy dominant from oak-juniper woodlands: results from long-term monitoring of wildfires

Feb 20 2025 7 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Charlotte Reemts about how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.

Episode 39: Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States

Feb 10 2025 11 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Erica Smithwick about how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues.

Episode 38: Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire

Jan 23 2025 9 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Clare Boerigter, Sean Parks, and Jonathan Long about using intentional, human-ignited fire as a tool to restore natural conditions within wilderness.

Episode 37: Overstory and fuel traits drive moisture dynamics of mesophytic and pyrophytic leaf litter and 10-h woody debris fuels in a mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodland

Jan 06 2025 10 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Heather Alexander and Jeffrey Cannon about reintroducing fire into mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodlands, and how that will be affected by the shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive species that have grown during periods of fire exclusion.

Episode 36: Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data

Dec 10 2024 8 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Doug Aubrey and Jeffrey Cannon about better predicting the leaf litter component in a pine forest to better understand how fire might move through forests under different management scenarios.

Episode 35: Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas

Nov 08 2024 6 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Norma Fowler and Rebecca Carden about the management applications of re-introducing surface fires into the woodlands, savannas, and shrubland of Central Texas.

Episode 34: Coexisting with wildfire: strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo

Oct 22 2024 10 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Christine Eriksen about strengthening our collective capacity to coexist with wildfire by embracing local and indigenous fire stewardship practices, enabling workforce diversity and inclusive leadership culture, and providing sustainable working conditions for wildland firefighters.

Episode 33: Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States

Sep 30 2024 8 mins  
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Malcolm North and Paul Hessburg about using strategic fire zones to minimize wildfire risk in the Western U.S.