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Association for Fire Ecology

About
Welcome to AFE
Mission
Fire Ecology
Cultural Fire
TEK Statement
Code of Ethics
Board and Staff
Committees
Bylaws
History
Annual Reports
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Join/Renew
Member Login
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Subscribe
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Students
SAFE Overview
Studying Fire
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SAFE Chapters
Student Webinars
Student and Chapter News
Events
Calendar
Trainings
Partner Webinar Series
Past Conference Resources
Programs
Awards
Certification
Mentoring Futures
Scholarships and Grants
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World of Wildland Fire
Journal
Fire Ecology Journal
Fire Ecology Chats - Podcast
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Fire Ecology Chats: A Podcast Series

Hannah Hull
May 6, 2025

Episode 44: Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration

Hannah Hull
May 6, 2025
Episode 44: Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration

Gina Beebe and Lauren Pile Knapp discuss using herbivory as a supplement to prescribed fire in areas with limitations.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
April 29, 2025

Episode 43: Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival

Hannah Hull
April 29, 2025
Episode 43: Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival

Chika Tada, Ella Plumanns-Pouton, and Alexander Filkov discuss this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
March 20, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
March 20, 2025
Episode 42: Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

Lauren Pile Knapp discusses how we can reopen closed forests in the eastern United States to woodlands and savannas, and reintroduce fire to those landscapes.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
March 6, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
March 6, 2025
Episode 41: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades

Carolyn Stephen, Jamie Ladner, and Lauren Sullivan discuss the effects of prescribed fire on plant communities like dry woodlands, dry-mesic woodlands, and glades in Missouri, USA.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
February 20, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
February 20, 2025
Episode 40: Crown fires remove a fire-sensitive canopy dominant from oak-juniper woodlands: results from long-term monitoring of wildfires

Charlotte Reemts discusses how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
February 10, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
February 10, 2025
Episode 39: Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States

Erica Smithwick discusses how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
January 23, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
January 23, 2025
Episode 38: Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire

Clare Boerigter, Sean Parks, and Jonathan Long discuss using intentional, human-ignited fire as a tool to restore natural conditions within wilderness.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
January 6, 2025

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

Hannah Hull
January 6, 2025
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

Heather Alexander and Jeffrey Cannon discuss 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.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
December 10, 2024

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

Hannah Hull
December 10, 2024
Episode 36: Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data

Doug Aubrey and Jeffrey Cannon discuss how to better predict the leaf litter component in a pine forest to better understand how fire might move through forests under different management scenarios.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
November 8, 2024

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

Hannah Hull
November 8, 2024
Episode 35: Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas

Norma Fowler and Rebecca Carden discuss re-introducing surface fires into the woodlands, savannas, and shrubland of Central Texas.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
October 22, 2024

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

Hannah Hull
October 22, 2024
Episode 34: Coexisting with wildfire: strengthening collective capacity by changing the status quo

Christine Eriksen discusses how to strengthen our collective capacity to coexist with wildfire.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
September 30, 2024

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

Hannah Hull
September 30, 2024
Episode 33: Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States

Malcolm North and Paul Hessburg discuss using strategic fire zones to minimize wildfire risk in the Western U.S.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
September 19, 2024

Episode 32: Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

Hannah Hull
September 19, 2024
Episode 32: Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

Maggie Epstein discusses how climate change is influencing forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
August 26, 2024

Episode 31: Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes

Hannah Hull
August 26, 2024
Episode 31: Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes

Abigail Croker discusses the process of conducting this important research on changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas, focusing on indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes.

Tagged: 31-60

Hannah Hull
August 12, 2024

Episode 30: Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room

Hannah Hull
August 12, 2024
Episode 30: Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room

Matt Reilly discusses using remote sensing to detect delayed mortality through spectral decline in trees in California, Oregon, and Washington over a five-year period following a fire.

Tagged: 1-30

Hannah Hull
July 22, 2024

Episode 29: Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia

Hannah Hull
July 22, 2024
Episode 29: Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia

Neil Williams and Melissa Lucash discuss how fire and climate change influence the boreal forests of Siberia by examining simulations.

Tagged: 1-30

Hannah Hull
July 8, 2024

Episode 28: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds

Hannah Hull
July 8, 2024
Episode 28: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds

Ashley Coble, Brooke Penaluna, and Laura Six discuss fire severity influences on large wood and stream ecosystems in western Oregon watersheds, with host Bob Keane.

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Administrative Director
February 20, 2024

Episode 27: The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana

Administrative Director
February 20, 2024
Episode 27: The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana

Brett Lawrence discusses the use and impact of UAS aerial ignition during prescribed fire operations over multiple years.

Tagged: 1-30

Administrative Director
February 20, 2024

Episode 26: Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada

Administrative Director
February 20, 2024
Episode 26: Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada

Scott Stephens, Alexis Bernal, and Les Hall share results of a study that used multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct Indigenous fire use in a mixed conifer forest in the northern Sierra Nevada.

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Administrative Director
February 20, 2024

Episode 25: Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas

Administrative Director
February 20, 2024
Episode 25: Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas

Kathleen Uyttewaal about results of a study that analyzed local social contexts in rural areas of Spain, Italy and France and assessed how these may inform adaptive capacity to wildland fire. 

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