Craig Bourgonje, February 11 2008, 3/3

What We Did:

• Looked at Vadge's blog (Mitch will hit me for that).
• Reviewed lab.
• Handed in lab.
• Looked over assigned questions.
• Watched video clip about prescribed burns.
• Looked at hand out.

Thoughts and opinions:

Todays class was mostly boring, despite watching a video clip, which wasted a small portion of the class. The better part of the class was spent reviewing homework, which I am great full it was not for marks.

Above and Beyond

Fire has played a major role in determining the distribution of plants across the South. Some plant communities such as cypress swamps survive for centuries between prolonged droughts that finally allow stand replacement fires to enter. Other communities such as the once vast expanse of longleaf pine burn every few years. In fact some ecosystems, for example the longleaf pine-wiregrass association, require periodic fire for their very survival.

http://geology.isu.edu/geostac/Field_Exercise/wildfire/images/Prescribed-Burn.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvBORoVWuM4