1 Year Post Prescribed Fire Analysis | Timing Of Application & Results | Habitat Management

[@RichardDunbar]

These are great!

[@Whitetail_Properties]

Thanks! Feel free to let us know what other kinds of topics you might like us to cover!

[@micah_lee]

This is a really helpful video. Do you think the timber that grows back will have worse form, and be less marketable? I am in a hardwood silviculture class and it is concerned with regenerating oak. Taking closed canopy oak stands and getting it to create a new cohort of oaks. Me personally, I think management like this is the coolest since it is restoring habitat that is crucial to native animals and insects, as well as conserves native grasses and forbs that are great (I like botany and flowers.) Well, hardwood management class is concerned with creating a crop of trees 50-75 years down the road that are marketable. They found the best way to get oak to out compete other species is to regenerate it in intermediate light conditions and then put down prescribed fires to top kill the species that are less fire tolerant than oak is. You are showing oaks that have many sprouts, do you think this will cause defects in the wood or will one leader win out?! I saw some sprouts that looked like that this past week in a oak shelterwood. I think they might have been advanced regeneration or just stump sprouts so it might have acted differently than seedlings would after fire! Who knows

[@Whitetail_Properties]

Thanks for the comment! It really depends on the objectives for the particular site and what management practices are used based on the objectives.

[@bobbyshields7682]

0:18 deer running out on top of the hill to the upper central part of the screen.

[@Whitetail_Properties]

Yup! Nice catch! We were thinking someone might notice.

[@bobbyshields7682]

@@Whitetail_Properties I notice the dormant fire top killed the saplings and they resprouted from the root system. Does a growing season fire (if hot enough) kill the whole tree and roots? Say you had a sweet gum issue and fire was the easiest way to get rid of them instead of imazapyr or something. Or you wanted to convert to more of a grassland.

[@Whitetail_Properties]

@@bobbyshields7682 Growing season fire has a better success rate of total kill on woody sprouts but its still not 100% effective. If the goal is more grasses in an open landscape the dormant season fire will stimulate more grasses and top kill the sprouts. Growing season fire would be advised a couple of rotations later to set back the sprouts after a good stand of grass is established.

[@elijahpedack8812]

Howwww did u see that

[@micah_lee]

With sweetgum, you will want to combine fire and herbicide. Fire just helps reduce the amount of herbicide you have to buy. If you just use fire, it will send up thousands of sprouts from roots and totally carpet the ground. You would need a couple decades of dormant season burns to kill that. Otherwise, a couple late spring burns does the trick. What the whitetail people said is super helpful and true