Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN)

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EFNCN Prescribed Burning Research and Development Projects
Short summaries of research and development projects conducted by EFNCN members provide project objectives, results, publications and visual impressions of the experimental or routine burns. Those projects that offer a website are also included in the website section further down on
this page.

            Denmark

• Restoration of Dune Habitats along the Danish West Coast (PDF file, 250 KB)

• International Workshop on Restoration of Dune Habitats Along the Danish West Coast, Vigsø, September 2003 (PDF, 319 KB)

            Finland

• Restoration of boreal forest succession and biodiversity (Eastern Finland) (PDF file, 450 KB)
• Planning of the Sustainable Slash-and-Burn Cultivation Programme (Koli National Park, Finland) (PDF file, 480 KB)

            Germany

• Atlantic heathlands (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) (PDF file, 300KB)
• Continental heathlands and Black Grouse habitats (Brandenburg, Germany) (PDF file, 550KB)
• Atlantic heathlands, Westruper Heide, (North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany) (PDF file, 150KB)
• Atlantic heathlands (Lower Saxony, Germany)
• Habitat management in military training areas (PDF file, 536 KB)
• Moor restoration (Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany) (PDF file, 170KB)
• Slopes in vineyard management (Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 
• Fallow management (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)  (PDF file, 560KB)
• Slopes in World Heritage sites (Rhine Valley, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) (PDF file, 730KB)

• Naturschutzgebiet Brachter Wald (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (PDF file, 185 KB in german, english version will be added soon)

• Slash-and-Burn Experiments to Reconstruct Late Neolithic Shifting Cultivation (PDF, 4.2 MB)

• The Use of Prescribed Fire along Railway Tracks for Reducing Wildfire Ignition in Germany (PDF, 592 KB)

            Netherlands

• Military ranges (Netherlands) (PDF file, 220KB)

            Poland

• Peatland fires (Biebrza Marshes, Poland) (PDF file, 27KB)

            Sweden

• Fire in Sweden – history, research, prescribed burning and forest certification (PDF file, 590 KB)

  United Kingdom

• Fire and pinewood ecology in Scotland: a summary of recent research at Glen Tanar Estate, Aberdeenshire (PDF file, 2.2 MB)