| Course description: | Wildfire Effects is intended to acquaint students with the relationships between fire regimes and fire effects, centered on first order effects. Students will learn how different fire treatments impact the ecological outcomes of wildfires or prescribed fires, and how manipulation of the variables in fire treatments cam help achieve desired conditions. Additional focus includes adaptive management strategies for reintroduction of fire onto the landscape, and managing the complexities of social and political concerns related to fire use. Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of basic wildland fire ecology. This is a hybrid course, with a core of online instructing supported by field visits to discuss fire effects. |
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