Prescribed Burn and Grazing Workshop

Research Update and Practitioner Experiences
This workshop is a great opportunity to learn about the role of prescribed burning to enhance ecosystem services and livestock performance. While fire is often viewed as bad, planned prescribed burns can achieve a positive outcome.
Speakers will provide the latest science on burning and grazing in the Northern Plains, including the NDSU Central Grasslands Research Extension Center, on the role of burning with grazing on wildlife habitat, plant community composition and forage quality and cattle performance.
Speakers from across the Northern Great Plains
- Agency representatives
- Livestock producers
- Researchers
- Conservationists
Topics
- General introductions to the logistics of implementing prescribed fire
- The role of the North Dakota Prescribed Fire Cooperative
- How fire promotes floral expression
- Impacts of patch burn grazing on grassland birds
- How fire can improve livestock performance and forage nutritional value
- Optimizing fire return interval and time of year for prescribed burning
- How burning can improve a plant community
- Rancher perspectives: implementing prescribed burns in a livestock operation
- Building and sustaining a ‘Burning Culture’ in the Dakotas
A buffet lunch will be served at noon.
Attendees will be able to ask questions and discuss their personal key issues involved with implementing prescribed burns on rangelands in North Dakota.
Who Should Attend
The event is open to the public. Livestock producers and rangeland managers are encouraged to attend.
Registration and Cost
The event is free. Preregistration for the meeting is highly encouraged in order to provide sufficient meals and seating.
Register
Contact Information
Requests for accommodations related to disability should be made to the event contact person at least two weeks in advance of the event.