Current River Pinery Tour
Tour the Current River Pinery via our podcasts to see how prescribed fire is restoring historic shortleaf pine woodlands to the Ozark landscape.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 4
- Years Active
- 2020
Part 4: Managed Woodlands Benefit Society
In this podcast, fire-science professionals and biologists tell how fire-adapted woodlands benefit human societies, past and present, both within the Current River Pinery and elsewhere in Missouri.
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Part 3: Fire-adapted ecosystems falter without flames
In this podcast, plant and wildlife biologists discuss the long-term ecological consequences in the Current River Pinery of the early 1900s Ozark timber boom and subsequent fire suppression, and the…
Part 2: The Decline of Shortleaf Pine
In this podcast, a fire history researcher describes long-ago Ozark woodland conditions, as revealed by fire scars in ancient pine stumps, and a Missouri forest historian tells of the lasting impact…
Part 1: Welcome to the Current River Pinery
This podcast accompanies Part 1 of a self-guided tour of the Current River Pinery in Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest. The four-part tour describes the pinery’s history, ecology, and the social…