Aerial photo of a prescribed burn showin fire moving into the underbrush in a stand of trees to the right of a sandy road.
The current fire frequency indicator is due for an update! Please sign up for a 1-hr call to help review draft improvements. Photo: A prescribed burn at Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge. Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

SECAS staff are always working on ways to improve the indicators for the Southeast Conservation Blueprint and make them more informative and useful. When we last convened a group to review the fire frequency indicator, there were several great ideas that we couldn’t integrate at the time. In particular, folks wanted to go beyond just how often an area has been burned and incorporate things like historic fire frequency and a longer fire history. Now, we have new methods to make that possible and want to share a potential approach with a draft indicator update.

If you’re interested in current and historic fire regimes, then join us for a one-hour review session for this indicator update. There’s no pre-work necessary–just come to the virtual event and we’ll explain what data we used and how we developed this refined indicator. You’ll be reviewing a draft of the indicator and have the opportunity to provide your thoughts and opinions on the data, methods, and approaches we’re considering so far.

Please click on the links below to register for one of the two options to review: