Promote public understanding of the importance and benefits of prescribed fire

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and communicate the relationships between basic fire regimes and first order fire effects, the effects of fire treatments on first order fire effects, and to manipulate fire treatments to achieve desired first order fire effects.

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Bureau of Forestry is advising hunters and other Michaux State Forest visitors a prescribed burn is planned in early November that could affect more than 1,900 acres of the state forest.