Advanced Fire Effects, Fuels and Fire Behavior
This is a hybrid classoom and field course, weather permitting. Includes field trip to previous prescribed burn. View tree mortality caused by crown, hole and root damage.
Learn about:
- Different ways or mechanisms that fire can kill trees
- How heat and flame contact damage plant tissues and physiology
- Effects of heat and flame contact on roots, stems/tree boles and foliage/crowns
- How different fire behavior and fuels influence fire effects
- Ways to mitigate and avoid tree mortality
Instructors:
Dr. Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, retired US Forest Service Fire Scientist
Zeno Acton, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist & Co-Owner of Acton Arboriculture
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