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Prescribed Burn and Grazing Workshop

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-25 09:30:00 2025-02-25 16:00:00 Prescribed Burn and Grazing Workshop Research Update and Practitioner ExperiencesThis 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 PlainsAgency representativesLivestock producersResearchersConservationistsTopics General introductions to the logistics of implementing prescribed fireThe role of the North Dakota Prescribed Fire CooperativeHow fire promotes floral expressionImpacts of patch burn grazing on grassland birdsHow fire can improve livestock performance and forage nutritional valueOptimizing fire return interval and time of year for prescribed burningHow burning can improve a plant communityRancher perspectives: implementing prescribed burns in a livestock operationBuilding and sustaining a ‘Burning Culture’ in the DakotasA 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.AgendaTimeSubjectSpeaker9:30 Welcome and opening remarksKevin Sedivec - Extension Rangeland Management Specialist, NDSU Extension and Interim Director, Central Grasslands REC9:40 Prescribed Fire ObjectivesEric Hoff - Land Steward, TNC10:00 Experience Using Prescribed Burning and Grazing on TNC Land in NDEric Rosenquist - Conservation Program Coordinator, NDNRT10:20 Fire for Flowers: How Restoring Disturbance is Key to Pollinator ConservationTorre Hovick -Associate Professor of Range Science, NDSU 10:40Break 11:00Improving Grassland Bird Habitat with Prescribed FireJustin Clarke - PhD Candidate, NDSU School of Natural Resource Sciences11:20 Pheasants Forever Prescribed Fire ProgramKelli Kuska - Prescribed Fire Coordinator, Pheasants Forever11:40 Discussion 12:00Lunch 1:00Keynote – Producer Perspectives: Fire, Grazing, and Conservation on the Sheyenne DeltaGeorge King - Producer, Leonard, ND1:40 Plant Community Responses to Fire and GrazingEsben Kjaer - PhD Candidate, NDSU School of Natural Resource Sciences2:00Forage Quality and Livestock Performance Using Patch Burn GrazingKevin Sedivec 2:20Break 2:40 Consider Fire as Nature’s Primary Tool to Suppress Invading Species in RangelandsJim Kopriva - Producer, Raymond South Dakota3:00 Do plants respond to multi-year disturbance rhythms, and are we missing the beat?Lance Vermeire - Rangeland Ecologist, USDA-ARS Fort Keogh Livestock andRange Research Laboratory3:20Building and Sustaining a ‘Fire Culture’ in the DakotasPete Bauman - Natural Resources and Wildlife Field Specialist, SDSU3:40 Discussion 4:00 Wrap-upKevin Sedivec Who Should AttendThe event is open to the public. Livestock producers and rangeland managers are encouraged to attend. Registration and CostThe event is free. Preregistration for the meeting is highly encouraged in order to provide sufficient meals and seating. Register Baymont Inn, 507 25th St SW, Jamestown, ND 58401 NDSU Agriculture no-reply@ndsu.edu America/Chicago public
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Baymont Inn, 507 25th St SW, Jamestown, ND 58401
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people with fire gear on doing a prescribed burn on grassland

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.

Agenda

TimeSubjectSpeaker
9:30 Welcome and opening remarksKevin Sedivec - Extension Rangeland Management Specialist, NDSU Extension and Interim Director, Central Grasslands REC
9:40 Prescribed Fire ObjectivesEric Hoff - Land Steward, TNC
10:00 Experience Using Prescribed Burning and Grazing on TNC Land in NDEric Rosenquist - Conservation Program Coordinator, NDNRT
10:20 Fire for Flowers: How Restoring Disturbance is Key to Pollinator ConservationTorre Hovick -Associate Professor of Range Science, NDSU 
10:40Break 
11:00Improving Grassland Bird Habitat with Prescribed FireJustin Clarke - PhD Candidate, NDSU School of Natural Resource Sciences
11:20 Pheasants Forever Prescribed Fire ProgramKelli Kuska - Prescribed Fire Coordinator, Pheasants Forever
11:40 Discussion 
12:00Lunch 
1:00Keynote – Producer Perspectives: Fire, Grazing, and Conservation on the Sheyenne DeltaGeorge King - Producer, Leonard, ND
1:40 Plant Community Responses to Fire and GrazingEsben Kjaer - PhD Candidate, NDSU School of Natural Resource Sciences
2:00Forage Quality and Livestock Performance Using Patch Burn GrazingKevin Sedivec 
2:20Break 
2:40 Consider Fire as Nature’s Primary Tool to Suppress Invading Species in RangelandsJim Kopriva - Producer, Raymond South Dakota
3:00 Do plants respond to multi-year disturbance rhythms, and are we missing the beat?Lance Vermeire - Rangeland Ecologist, USDA-ARS Fort Keogh Livestock and
Range Research Laboratory
3:20Building and Sustaining a ‘Fire Culture’ in the DakotasPete Bauman - Natural Resources and Wildlife Field Specialist, SDSU
3:40 Discussion 
4:00 Wrap-upKevin Sedivec 

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

Contact Information

Ben Menapace, Research Specialist - Central Grasslands Research Extension Center

Requests for accommodations related to disability should be made to the event contact person at least two weeks in advance of the event.