Everglades National Park, Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2011
Author unknown. Everglades National Park, Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2011
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Park/network including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are staff accomplishments/areas of focus, future program direction and other optional information (e.g. data analysis graphics or presentations, annual highlights, publications, program challenges, unique solutions to problems, collaboration, photographs of monitoring/fire activities, and suggestions on FFI). The Everglades fire effects program had a successful year completing the monitoring of all scheduled plots, along with developing protocols for and installing new plots, completing training for personal development and continuing to support the compliance needs of the Fire Management Program at Everglades National Park and Canaveral National Seashore. This year Matt Smith moved on to a job with the Fish and Wildlife in central Georgia, and Ryan Desliu and Bill Graham were hired into the GS-5 positions. Ryan came from the South Florida Water Mangement District in the northern Everglades and Bill had just completed a 4 year Bachelor’s degree in biology after more than 20 years with the Navy. Maya Tupaj was out on maternity leave during the beginning of 2011 while Aerin Land and Colleen Holland managed the program during her absence. The program continued to read FMH plots and refine methodologies in both Everglades National Park and Cape Canaveral National Seashore. In 2011, the crew increased monitoring the exotic climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, in the Coastal Prairies installing temporary plots to gather more detailed information on lygodium’s growth response after fire. The crew also implemented the new lygodium monitoring protocols within the current FMH Coastal Prairie plots. The new FMH plots installed were Long Hydro-period (CLJA) plots located within the new WUI River of Grass burn units and monitor changes in vegetation and fuel loading.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Author unknown
- Units
- CANA , EVER , FIEC
- Keywords
- FFI, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics