Author Archives: Auriel Fournier

We’re pleased to share our prescribed fire manual which takes the results from our project to date and puts them into actionable recommendations for fire managers. We hosted a webinar on January 15th to kick off sharing the manual, you can watch the recording here. Cox, J.A., E.A. Beilke, A.M.V. Fournier, E.I. Johnson, K.S. Kalasz,Continue reading “New Publication – Burning For Birds: A Manual for the Application of Prescribed Fire in High Marshes on the Northern Gulf Coast”

The FireBird team has published a new paper on the use of autonomous recording units for detecting eastern black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) vocalizations. The paper, titled “Variation in Detection Distance of Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) Vocalizations by Autonomous Recording Units”, was published in the journal Waterbirds. This study comes as the firstContinue reading “Variation in Detection Distance of Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) Vocalizations by Autonomous Recording Units”

Check out the newest issue of our newsletter!

Check out the newest issue of our newsletter providing updates from the summer 2023 field season and other cool things!

On September 6th Chelsea Kross led a webinar for end users that covers our climate work, and included a panel discussion with team members with expertise across the Gulf of Mexico geography. A recording is available here.

Our first project newsletter covering up thorugh our Summer 2022 work can be downloaded here.

We’d like to extend an invitation for our adaptive management virtual workshop and request that you reserve the following dates on your calendar: 19-22 October.   If you work with any of our focal species (Mottled Duck, Black Rail, Yellow Rail), in high marshes in the Gulf of Mexico, and/or with prescribed fire, you’re inputContinue reading “2021 Adaptive Resource Management Meeting”