Aldo's tools: Getting creative with prescribed fire, ft. Dr. Marcus Lashley | Ep 04

01/26/21 • 58 min

How can prescribed fire be used creatively to create and enhance habitat for wildlife? Dr. Marcus Lashley, Assistant Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist at University of Florida and host of Fire University, joins the podcast to tackle this question, and we take a deep dive into prescribed fire as a habitat management tool.

Dr. Marcus Lashley - @DrDisturbance - @ufdeerlab

Resources discussed in the episode

Fire University Episode 3 – Where to get information, experience, and collaborators to meet prescribed burning objectives - https://fireuniversity.libsyn.com/episode-03-where-to-get-information-experience-and-collaborators-to-meet-prescribed-burning-objectives

Fire University Episode 4 – Patch-Burn-Grazing as a strategy to manage grassland communities - https://fireuniversity.libsyn.com/episode-04-patch-burn-grazing-as-a-strategy-to-manage-grassland-communities

Natural Resources University - https://naturalresourcesuniversity.libsyn.com/

Southern Fire Exchange - https://southernfireexchange.org/

Coalition of Prescribed Fire Council - http://www.prescribedfire.net/

Prescribed Burn Associations - https://research.cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/southeast-fire-update/prescribed-burn-associations/

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Dr. Marcus Lashley - @DrDisturbance - @ufdeerlab

Resources discussed in the episode

Natural Resources University - https://naturalresourcesuniversity.libsyn.com/

Southern Fire Exchange - https://southernfireexchange.org/

Coalition of Prescribed Fire Council - http://www.prescribedfire.net/

Prescribed Burn Associations - https://research.cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/southeast-fire-update/prescribed-burn-associations/

Enroll now in our free wildland fire course. Available to all!

This podcast is supported by listener donations - thank you for being a part of this effort.

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Habitat management: The oldest job in the world? | Ep 03

For as long as people have been interacting with wild animals, they have been manipulating the places where wild animals live. So, is habitat management the oldest job in the world? Join Adam and Jarred as they chat about the history of wildlife habitat management, dig deep into the central premise of habitat management – plant succession – and introduce the five tools for habitat management that Aldo Leopold described in his 1933 book, Game Management.

Learn more about plant succession and its relationship to wildlife habitat by checking out the resources below:

Iowa’s Forest Birds - https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/15963

Managing Your Woods for White-Tailed Deer - https://edustore.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-596-W

Grassland Successional Chart - https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GrasslandSuccession_wFNR.png

Wildlife Habitat Education Program - https://fwf.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/07/1_2020-WHEP-Intro-Acitivites.pdf

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Aldo's tools: What's good for the herd is good for the bird, ft. Marissa Ahlering | Ep 05

Everything from grasshoppers to a bison graze and can have drastic impacts on vegetation on which many other wildlife species depend. Unsurprisingly, many wildlife managers are therefore interested in understanding and using grazing animals to create the unique places where animals, or in the case of the blowout penstemon, unique plants, thrive. In this wide-ranging discussion, Adam talks to The Nature Conservancy’s Marissa Ahlering about how grazing impacts wildlife and how we can creatively use grazing to manage wildlife habitat.

More on Marissa Ahlering: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/our-people/marissa-ahlering/

Find Dr. Ahlering’s research here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=86moVcEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Including her research on cattle grazing and grassland birds. - https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jwmg.1049

More on blowout penstemon - http://outdoornebraska.gov/blowoutpenstemon/

More on patch burn grazing from our friends at Fire U: https://fireuniversity.libsyn.com/episode-04-patch-burn-grazing-as-a-strategy-to-manage-grassland-communities