Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN)
Websites
The following websites include information or activities on prescribed
burning in nature conservation or on cultural fire history in the Baltic
Region and associated countries:
Finland
Koli National Park - Swidden heritage alive (go to: slash-and-burn):
http://www.metla.fi/koli/index-en.htm
Germany
Fire Ecology Research Group (GFMC host) website in German:
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/feueroekologie/
Federal
German Forest Service District Lausitz: Heathland Burning Project
http://www.bundesforst.de/news/aktuelles/archiv/heidebrennen.htm
http://www.naturschutzfonds.de/index.php5?parent=32&nav=62&page=99&from=parent%3D32%26nav%3D62
Fire
management in open landscapes of NW Germany - Alfred Toepfer Academy for
Nature Conservation:
http://www.nna.de/feuer/teilproj.htm
R&D
Project
"Sustainable Development of Xerothermic Slopes of the Middle Rhine
Valley" (click on "Themenbereiche, Feuer")
www.ee-mittelrhein.de
Prescribed
Burning in the Highmoor Lowlands of Diepholz, NW Germany (click on
“Kontrolliertes Brennen”)
www.bund-niedersachsen.de/diepholzer-moorniederung
Prescribed
Fire and Heather Management in the Nature Reserve Westruper Heide (North
Rhine-Westphalia)
http://www.nabu-halternamsee.de/haltern/heide/heidebrennen.html
Reutebrennen
in Wolfach, Black Forest (go to: Archiv, then to Rüttebrennen
2002):
http://www.wolfach.de/pages/tourframe.html
Forschungsverbund
Offenland (Habitat management in military training areas in the
pleistocenic lowland area of northeast Germany)
http://www.offenland.de/
Feuereinsatz in der Landschaftspflege – Website des Ministeriums Laendlicher Raum, Baden Wuerttemberg (Fire in landscape management – website of the Ministry for Rural Space, Baden Wuerttemberg State, Germany)
http://www.landwirtschaft-mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1063436_l1/index.html
Prescribed burning
components within the project LIFE06 NAT/D/000003 „Rohrhardsberg, Upper
Elz and Wilde Gutach“ „Baden Wuerttemberg State, Germany)
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/feueroekologie/EU-Life-project.html
http://rohrhardsberg-life.de/artikel/feuereinsatz
http://rohrhardsberg-life.de/artikel/kontrollierter-feuereinsatz
http://www.landkreis-emmendingen.de/index.phtml?mNavID=1406.32&sNavID=1406.372&La=
Forum
2000 Feuer in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic
of Germany (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
http://www2.kah-bonn.de/fo/feuer/0.htm
For obtaining information on the proceedings volume Feuer
contact:
forum@kah-bonn.de
Italy
Prescribed burning, grazing
and mowing for conservation management of moorlands in Nature Oriented
reserve of Vauda (Turin, Italy):
http://www.agroselviter.unito.it/pianificazione/VaudaENG.htm
Experimental Fire Video:
http://www.agroselviter.unito.it/pianificazione/vaudavideoENG.htm
Sweden
Prescribed burning required for forest certification (Chapter 6.4.4) -
Swedish FSC Standard for Forest Certification:
http://www.fsc-sweden.org/gron/Swedish%20FSC-standard1.html#6.4
United
Kingdom
FIREMAN – Fire Management to Maintain Biodiversity and Mitigate
Economic Loss
http://www.fireman-europe.com/
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Heather
& Grass Burning Regulations and Code of Practice
http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/documents/countryside/uplands/hg-burn2007.pdf
Heathlands
Europe, Network for any subject related to heathlands:
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/heathlands/default.htm
The
Muirburn Code
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/08154231/0
Prescribed
burning on Moorland: Supplement to the Muirburn Code - A Guide to Best
Practice
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/environment/msup-00.asp
Fire
management in NW Europe - FireBeaters
http://firebeaters.org.uk
FIRES: Interdisciplinary
Research on Ecosystem Services: Fire and Climate Change in UK Moorlands
and Heaths
http://www.fires-seminars.org.uk/
International
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
http://nature.org/initiatives/fire/
Fire
Regime and Condition Class (FRCC) Website
http://www.frcc.gov/