A story from Mississippi serves as a reminder of the beneficial effects of prescribed fire in the management of game bird populations like quail and turkey. On the Copiah Wildlife Management Area, prescribed burning has contributed to improvements in turkey harvests over the past several years. The article encourages private landowners to incorporate prescribed fire into their wildlife management plans.

The Wildland Fire Leadership Council has released an update to the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy to reorient to today's critical emphasis areas and key implementation challenges. The four key critical emphasis areas for the updated framework are:

1. Climate change
2. Workforce capacity, health and well-being
3. Community resilience (preparation, response, and recovery)
4. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and environmental justice

Five key implementation challenges were also identified that relate to the use of prescribed fire and managed wildfire, the application of science and technology, forest economics, and general awareness of the Cohesive Strategy. Read the Addendum here or check out the summary from the Southern Group of State Foresters below.

The USFS has developed an app to deliver information about fire weather and fire behavior in an easy-to-use format. While much of this data is available from other sources, the app is meant to provide a one-stop resource and to synthesize the data into values that make the most sense to people on the ground.

"Indigenous people used prescribed burns in forests for thousands of years to manage land, reduce wildfire risk, and support cultural practices. Noa Ervin and Claire McLeod of Beveridge & Diamond interview Deniss Martinez, PhD Candidate at the University of California Davis, focusing on how colonial governments and land management agencies have suppressed these practices, and highlight the recent progress in restoring Indigenous fire management."