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With an above-normal risk of wildfires predicted for the summer, Forest Resources Associate Professor Mike Dockry was asked to join the Plant People podcast. Dockry is registered member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a leading authority on how Indigenous forestry practices can help curb such large, destructive fires. In the episode, he and host Jennifer Bernstein, New York Botanical Garden CEO and President, explore the state of our forests and the increased threat of wildfres as a result of climate change. They also dig into ways that traditional forestry methods, from controlled burns to carefully considered cutting, can provide the knowledge we need to address this problem – if only we acknowledge their value.
New Resource! A guide put together by Forest Resources researchers Mike Schuster, Peter Reich, Nick Partington, and Andrew Kaul and the Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center (MITPPC) synthesizes current knowledge on forest understory revegetation. The document is designed to provide science-driven guidance on strategies that effectively suppress invasive plant re-establishment and promote native biodiversity, with a focus on buckthorn, a widespread and resilient invader of forest understories through much of North America.
In a new article for Resilience.org, reporter Irina Matuzava covers how, with the surge of uncontrolled wildfires across North America, fire management practices are finally changing in the U.S. – shifting from preventing any and all burns to embracing prescribed burns, which had long been practiced by Indigenous communities before the U.S. government banned them. Learn more about how this came to be – and the UMN researchers and community members that have been a part of it – by reading the full article.