Prescribed Fire

Sat, Apr 20, 2024

10:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET

Deerwood Property, Thomasville, GA

Price: $10/person

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Women in GA and FL! Please join us just north of the Florida border for an opportunity to learn the practice of prescribed fire from a variety of skilled women in prescribed fire. Cadre will include Tall Timbers staff, and Georgia DNR. All aspects of a prescribed fire will be explained!

By Zac O'Donnell and Mackenzie Alexander

This article was originally published on the ForestHer North Carolina website on January 11, 2024.

Written by Dakota Wagner, Originally posted by ForestHer NC. Above Photo by Angela Gaskell (SPBA).

Time & Location

May 04, 5:00 PM EDT – May 06, 8:00 PM EDT

LighterWood Farm in Moore County, West End, NC 27376, USA

 

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Oct 17, 2022 12:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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By Gloria Erickson, as told to Ashley McFarland. Reposted from Minnesota Women’s Press. See the original article here.

By Dakota Wagner, Forest Stewards Guild and North Carolina ForestHer

It’s important to remember that wildfire season will not be cancelled, even in the time of a global pandemic. Here are some steps you can take to mitigate the risk before the fire happens.

Trees provide shelter and food to the wildlife that live on your land, they hold the soil and protect it from erosion, they provide the air we all breathe, products you use everyday come from tree, and they provide us a place to walk, enjoy the peace and quiet we find in nature.  However trees take decades to grow tall and strong.  Are you preparing your woods for the next generation of trees?  Are your woods healthy?  Learn about how to evaluate your woods. 

Then make your woods healthier with these activities:

Whether natural or man-made, fires have always had a hand in shaping the world’s forests.

Are you interested in learning about Forestry Projects, Management Plans, and Legacy Planning?

This Ladies for their Land workshop will focus on all things prescribe burning. Why it is important and the benefits, how to prescribe burn, what and when to burn, and other considerations for burning: wildlife impacts, longleaf pine, and long-term goals. 

Hosted in Cochran, Georgia this workshop will focus on everything prescribe burning (why to do it, things to consider, benefits, etc), and if weather works out planning to perform a live demonstration on site.