Prescribed Fire

ATFS Standard 4.3
When used, prescribed fire shall conform with landowner’s objectives and pre-fire planning.

E-Fire

This interactive site offered by N.C. State University  allows you to become virtually immersed in a prescribed burn, learn why and how burns are conducted and hear from the landowners and resource professionals who use prescribed fire as a land management tool.

 

The articles below provide information on the many benefits of prescribed fire.

• Benefits of Prescribed Burning
• A Guide for Prescribed Fire in Southern Forests
• Using Fire to Improve Wildlife Habitat
• Why do Good Forest Managers Burn the Woods?
• Good Fires
• Good Fire…Bad Fire
• Introduction to Prescribed Fire in Southern Ecosystems
• Why We Burn: Prescribed Burning as a Management Tool
• Fire Ecology in the Southeastern United States
• Prescribed Burning in Southern Pine Forests: Fire Ecology, Techniques and Uses for Wildlife Management
• Why Burn? Different Perspectives on the Benefits of Fire (videos)
• 21st Century Fire Ecology in the South
• Lightening Season Fire: Friend or Foe of Breeding Birds?
• Burning Young Longleaf Pine
• Technical Assistance for Longleaf Pine Management in the North Carolina Sandhills
• Spreadsheet of Longleaf Financial Assistance Programs for Private Landowners
• Landowner Decision Chart for Longleaf Management
• Landowner Checklist for Prescribed Burning
• Quail, Turkey and Deer: Fire Effects and Management Recommendations
• No Cause for Alarm Prescribed Burns Benefit Wildlife and Habitat
• Prescribed Fire: What North Carolina Citizens Need to Know 
• Reasons for Prescribed Fire in Forest Resource Management
• Prescribed Fire: 6 Things to Consider Before You Ignite
• Publication finds that prescribed burns reduces tick populations

 

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