Using Fire as A Tool To Manage Oak Ecosystems
Registration is now closed.
When: July 25, 2018 - 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Where: Dodgeville, WI
Partners designed this workshop to increase awareness and understanding of tools for assessing the condition of oak ecosystems and potential management scenarios. Management scenarios address a range of objectives, including:
- utilizing and regenerating the oak timber resource,
- managing for wildlife habitat requirements, and
- assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded (ecological restoration).
The content will be most relevant to oak savannas, woodlands, and forests in the Driftless Area.
Key topics include:
- Oak ecosystem fundamentals: biology of dominant oak species and oak ecosystem disturbance regimes in the Driftless Area
- Understanding terms and tools used in oak silviculture and prescribed burn planning and implementation
- Fire effects on oak timber values (damage to residual trees, changes in stand volume and species composition)
- Coupling invasive species treatment, timber harvest, and fire
- Fire and Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law
Presenters
“Managing Oak Ecosystems with Fire in the Eastern U.S. - Management Scenarios”
Dr. Dan Dey, research forester, US Forest Service Northern Research Station
This presentation is now online as a recorded webinar.
“Prescribed Fire Effects on Oak Timber Value”
Joe Marschall, University of Missouri Tree-Ring Lab
This presentation is now online as a recorded webinar.
“Fire Management for Oaks on State Wildlife Areas in Southwest Michigan”
Mark Sargent, Regional Supervisor, SW Region, Division of Wildlife, Michigan DNR
Jesse Bramer, Forester, SW Region, Division of Wildlife, Michigan DNR
Who Should Attend?
- Foresters
- Wildlife biologists
- Land managers
- Soil and water conservation staff
Continuing education units:
- WDNR Cooperating Forester: 5.0 CE hours
- SAF: 5.0 Category 1 (CF) CFE credits
- Wildlife Society: 5.0 Category I (Certified Wildlife Biologist® Renewal/Professional Development Certificate Program)
- SFI: 4 hours of SFI credit
Registration
Organizing partners:
- Society of American Foresters Southwest Wisconsin Chapter
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Forest Stewards Guild
- Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium