Barriers to Prescribed Fire in the US Great Plains, Part II: Critical Review of Presently Used and Potentially Expandable Solutions
Autumn S. Clark,
Devan Allen McGranahan,
Benjamin A. Geaumont,
Carissa L. Wonkka,
Jacqueline P. Ott,
Urs P. Kreuter
Affiliations
Autumn S. Clark
Environmental and Conservation Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Devan Allen McGranahan
Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Miles City, MT 59301, USA
Benjamin A. Geaumont
Hettinger Research Extension Center, North Dakota State University, Hettinger, ND 58639, USA
Carissa L. Wonkka
Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Sidney, MT 59270, USA
Jacqueline P. Ott
Maintaining Resilient Dryland Ecosystems Program, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA
Urs P. Kreuter
Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
This is the second paper of a two-part series on the barriers to prescribed fire use in the Great Plains of the USA. While the first part presented a systematic review of published papers on the barriers to prescribed fire use, specifically regarding perceptions and attitudes of land managers, this second part reviews the solutions that are employed to increase prescribed fire use by land managers in the Great Plains. First, the review compiled the solutions currently and ubiquitously employed to promote fire use and how they have been documented to address barriers. Second, potentially expandable solutions used in similar natural resource fields and communities were reviewed as possible solutions to the unaddressed aspects of remaining barriers that limit fire use.
