Episode 48: Fire, land use, and the long-term dynamics of a pitch pine woodland in coastal Maine, USA

streaming on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts

Host: Robert Keane, Editor of Fire Ecology and Retired Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, USA

Guests: Andrew Barton, Professor of Biology at University of Maine at Farmington and Dan Grenier, Lands Conservation Specialist with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Andrew Barton and Dan Grenier about examining the role fire has played in pitch pine forests over the last 9,000 years, and why we find this kind of woodland in coastal Maine.


Special thanks to our guests for their participation, to Bob Keane for hosting this podcast series, and to Madeline Scheintaub for volunteering her time to edit the audio recordings.