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March 24, 2020 by Rick Caldwell

Burn Boss Training

Bernheim has been using prescribed fire (sometimes called controlled burning) to help us to manage our many habitats for the past 23 years. We know that historically, fire has played […]

Filed Under: Actions Beyond Our Borders Tagged With: Echo Spring 2020, forest echo

June 24, 2019 by Rick Caldwell

Bernheim at 90: Why do we conduct prescribed burns?

Periodically, you may see photos or mentions (our neighbors may even see the smoke from their houses) of the prescribed burns we conduct at Bernheim and wonder why we do […]

Filed Under: 90th, Bernheim at 90, Conservation Leadership, Ecological Stewardship, Homepage Blog Feed, Research Tagged With: big prairie, fire, prescribed burns, stewardship

October 10, 2017 by Rick Caldwell

Bernheim represents Kentucky at American Chestnut Foundation fall meeting

I have just returned from attending the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) annual fall meeting in Portland, Maine. Maine is one of the states where the mighty chestnut tree once grew […]

Filed Under: Actions Beyond Our Borders, Arboretum, Blog, Homepage Blog Feed, Research Tagged With: American Chestnut, stewardship, Thought leadership

June 20, 2016 by Rick Caldwell

Vanishing Acts: Kentucky Trees of Concern – American Chestnut

Prior to the 1900s, the American chestnut tree once dominated over 200 million acres of the eastern hardwood forest from Maine to Georgia, and west to the Ohio River Valley. […]

Filed Under: Arboretum, Blog, Research, Vanishing Acts Tagged With: American Chestnut, Buddy Hubbuch, Chestnut, Native Species, Research

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