News - August 2020


Degrees of learning: Prescribed burn classes give students an edge in the real world

The morning’s air felt thick. It wasn’t ideal. As the students gathered into the wood-paneled classroom at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway, Mark Melvin bit his lip. The plans that day called for their first hands-on prescribed burn, at a pie-shaped piece of land near Ichauway’s skeet range. Conditions weren’t terrible, but they weren’t great. Melvin, prescribed fire management specialist at the Jones Center who is…

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