An excellent StoryMap by the Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium tells the history of recurrent fire in the Ozarks and humans' role in that story. It reviews the work of researchers using dendrochronology to build records of fire histories and then reviews the stories that emerge. Although the forests of the Ozarks look very different from many of our forests here in the South, their relationships to fire have many parallels.

As the conversation about smoke management continues on, a couple more smoke resources are newly available. This fact sheet from Kansas Flint Hills Smoke Management and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange gives a quick overview of the smoke management advantages afforded by prescribed fire compared to wildfire. For a deeper dive on wildfire and prescribed fire smoke, check out this Science You Can Use document from the USFS.