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The Nature Conservancy is using prescribed fire to promote the recovery of the endangered Peters Mountain mallow at its Narrows Preserve in Virginia
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The Appalachian Fire Learning Network engages federal, state and private land management agencies in a collaborative effort to enhance the capacity to implement ecological fire management in the Central Appalachian Forest, Western Allegheny Plateau, and Cumberlands and Southern Ridge and Valley ecoregions. Together, these ecoregions include portions of six states — Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. They are characterized by rolling and mountainous terrain, hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forest, pine-oak-heath shrublands and woodlands, small-patch grasslands including hillside prairies, and cedar glades.
Vision
Within this biologically diverse region, the Network seeks to:
- collaborate with stakeholders to strengthen the scientific basis for landscape-scale fire management, and develop landscape-scale desired future conditions and fire management objectives for the Central, Southern and Western Appalachian Region;
- transfer knowledge and lessons learned throughout the Network to facilitate ecological objective setting, effective stakeholder engagement, efficient compliance with regulatory requirements, and successful funding of ecological fire management projects;
- identify critical barriers to the restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems, and develop strategies to overcome these barriers; and
- achieve tangible and measurable progress in the restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems at demonstration sites throughout the Network.
Demonstration Landcapes
- Allegheny Highlands, VA and WV
- Cumberland River, KY
- Shawnee Forests of Southern Ohio, OH
Participating Landscapes
- Clinch Mt. Ranger District, VA
- Pine Creek Historic Forest Restoration Project, OH
- Shenandoah National Park, Blackrock Project, VA
- West Branch Wilderness, PA
Leader: Judy Dunscomb
Workshop 1 / Cumberland Falls State Park, KY / 22-24 May 2007
The objectives of this workshop were to learn about the landscapes and provide peer review on ecological models and desired future conditions that the teams develop in collaboration with partners.
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