VISIONING THE FUTURE FOREST SPEAKER SERIES - PART TWO

PRESCRIBED BURNS AND SMOKE

Prescribed Burning

Led by FOREST⇌FIRE Co-Creator Michael Llewellyn, we explore the role of fire and the challenges of smoke in forest restoration with US Forest Service specialists.

  • Why do forest managers want to introduce fire to our vulnerable forest?

  • What are the differences between wildfire, prescribed fire, controlled burning and cultural burning?

  • What is the intended outcome of purposely burning the forest?

  • What about smoke? Isn’t setting fires in the forest bad for air quality?

  • Does smoke hurt the trees too?

  • Doesn’t smoke make the atmosphere hotter?

 

  • When: Friday, May 13, 2022, 6-7:30pm

 
 

Our speakers are long time specialists in fire practices and smoke monitoring on the Tahoe National forest:

Linda Ferguson, Fuels Specialist (and Burn Boss), USDA Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District (see bio here).

Leland Tarney, PhD, Physical Ecologist, Air Resource Advisor/Tech Transfer Specialist (detail), Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program, USDA Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District (see bio here).

Michael & Heather Llewellyn