Eastern Fire Effects Research Team

Mission

To understand the effects, control, and management of wildland fire in the eastern United States 

deciduous and montane coniferous forests.

    Background

An informal team of Forest Service and affiliated scientists from the eastern United States that seek to collaboratively and efficiently answer wildland fire related questions.  The team approach was conceived as a means of coordinating responses to research proposals from a regional perspective.

Future

To provide an ongoing means of coordinating regional fire-related research and to seek collaborative opportunities that strengthen new and existing studies.

Collaborators' Current Fire Related Studies

Effects of seasonal prescribed fires on oak-dominated shelterwood stands

• Pat Brose (RWU-NE-4152)

Stand replacement prescribed burning for fuel reduction and regeneration of table mountain pine/pitch pine stands in the southern Appalachian mountains.

• Pat Brose (RWU-NE-4152)

The effectiveness of prescribed fire to restore the mixed-oak ecosystems in southern Ohio

• Dan Yaussy (RWU-NE-4153) and Bob Long (RWU-NE-4558)

• The Restoration of Mixed-Oak Forest Ecosystems in Southern Ohio with Prescribed Fire

Consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments

• Dan Yaussy (RWU-NE-4153)

• Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments for Ecosystem Restoration

Wine Spring ecosystem management project and stand restoration burning on degraded pine hardwood ecosystems

• Jim Vose (RWU-SRS-4351)

Conasauga River Watershed Restoration Project

• Jim Vose (RWU-SRS-4351)

Exploring the causes of failed oak regeneration in eastern deciduous forests

• Mary Beth Adams and Mark Ford (RWU-NE-4353)

Evaluating prescribed fire as a silvicultural tool to promote oak regeneration in the central Appalachians

• Tom Schuler, Mark Ford, and Mary Beth Adams (RWU-NE-4353)

For further information, contact Tom Schuler or any of the scientists listed above.

Go to RWU-4353: Sustainable Productivity and Diversity of Central Appalachian Forests

Go to RWU-4153: Quantitative Methods for Modeling Forest Ecosystems