Stacy Clark & Callie Schweitzer: Stand Management - Existing Stands

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Objectives

1. To describe role of fire and human demographic changes in development of eastern upland hardwood forests.
2. To examine the role of fire as a management tool and major goals of prescribed burning in eastern forest ecosystems.
3. To examine research findings of prescribed burning studies and what these studies tell us about the use of fire as a management tool.