Plants have a variety of responses to fire. Unlike wildlife that can flee and return to enjoy the benefits of fresh growth and abundant flowering a fruiting, plants must stay in place when fire sweeps across the landscape.
To understand what happens after fire, protected area managers can benefit from monitoring fire effects.
Though researchers are important partners in learning about fire, academics often select variables and study design that differs from the operational needs of managers. Research is often short term and published in obscure journals beyond the reach of field personnel.
Dos Fuegos Fire Management has designed a simple and easy method for protected area managers to establish long-term photo points and collect useful data for decision making.
Good data with associated photo points can also help to communicate to colleagues and critics the results of any fire.
Fire Effects monitoring helps managers go beyond guessing or relying on short term studies to learn how wildlife habitat and ecosystems respond to fire.
Dos Fuegos Fire Management can train you and your field staff to collect data and observations that put science in your hands to make cost effective decisions for your specific area.