Name: A Decision Procedure to Minimize Impacts from Prescribed Fire on Selected Sensitive Wildlife Species
Start: 2025-03-01T15:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T16:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

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Saturday March 1, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CST

Room 27

Prescribed fire managers often hesitate to burn areas containing rare wildlife (E&T, SGCN) due to concerns about mortality. These hesitations can lead to missed opportunities, lack of prescribed fire, and frustration. We developed communication procedures using published literature and weather data sets to support burn-day decisions that provide confidence in minimizing impacts. We hope to provide future empirical data to further support such decisions at a local level. Presenters will share feedback from burn crews.

Presenters

Tom Velat

Forest Preserve District of DuPage County

Nick Fuller

Natural Resource Project Coordinator, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County

Natural Areas ManagementNatural Areas HabitatNatural Areas Budgeting

Saturday March 1, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CST
Room 27

Stewardship & Ecology, Technical

Session Session Block F: 3:15 - 4 PM

Wild Things 2025

Tom Velat

Nick Fuller

Attendees (115)

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