NCSR Fire Ecology and Management Series

This six-module series is designed to address both the general role of fire in ecosystems as well as specific wildfire management issues in forest ecosystems. The series includes the following modules:

• Ecological Role of Fire
• Historical Fire Regimes and their Application to Forest Management
• Anatomy of a Wildfire - the B&B Complex Fires
• Pre-Fire Intervention - Thinning and Prescribed Burning
• Post-Wildfire (Salvage) Logging – the Controversy
• An Evaluation of Media Coverage of Wildfire Issues

The Ecological Role of Fire introduces the role of wildfire to students in a broad range of disciplines. This introductory module forms the foundation for the next four modules in the series, each of which addresses a different aspect of wildfire management.  An Evaluation of Media Coverage of Wildfire Issues is an adaptation of a previous NCSR module designed to provide students with the skills to objectively evaluate articles about wildfire-related issues. It can be used as a stand-alone module in a variety of natural resource offerings.

Curriculum produced by NCSR. Funding Provided by the National Science Foundation