YEARLY BURN SCHEDULE:

Each year a map of potential prescribed burns is created. The map is based on the fire return interval specified by the Fire Management Plan, plus guidance from staff about units to burn, or avoid burning, based on present or future research projects in individual units. Researchers designing a project must first discuss the needs for fire management with the Land Manager before setting up research plots in the field. Other categories on the map (aside from potential burn areas) provide guidance in the event of a wildfire.

 

 

Lighting a headfire during a prescribed burn in 2003. Photo by Kevin Main. © Archbold Biological Station, 2003.

The sun shines through the smoke in a grass fire on the Reserve. Photo by April Hansgate. © Archbold Biological Station, 2007.

A wildfire burns behind the main buildings in 2001. © Archbold Biological Station, 2001

The burnt stubs of a scrub oak one day after a prescribed fire in unit 42A. Photo by Kevin Main. © Archbold Biological Station, 2008.