EURASIAN FIRE IN NATURE CONSERVATION NETWORK (EFNCN)

GFMC Prescribed Burning Operations for Restoration and Maintenance of Calluna vulgaris Dune Heath Conservation Areas

Sylt Island and mainland of Schleswig-Holstein State (Germany) 2001-2018

 

17 July 2018
Prescribed burning operations on Calluna vulgaris heathlands on Sylt Island, in cooperation with Sylt Nature Conservancy (Naturschutzgemeinschaft Sylt) and County Conservation Administration (Untere Naturschutzbehörde Kreis Nordfriesland), following up the 2014+ burning programme on Sylt Island, Germany.

Nature Reserve Morsum Heath on Sylt Island during the prescribed burn for conservation of  Calluna vulgaris heath on 17 July 2018 (upper), immediately after the fire (middle) and an aerial view on 18 July 2018. Photos: Courtesy Naturschutzvereinigung Sylt (Sylt Nature Conservation  Association).

Morsum Heath post-fire impressions one year later (10 August 2019) showing successful result of the prescribed fire: Clean burn and mosaic patches of unburned depressions and tree-brush clusters (upper photo) and transition to the wet depression Southern fringe of the burned site. Photos: GFMC.

4-9 August 2014
Prescribed burning operation on Calluna vulgaris heathlands on Sylt Island, in cooperation with Sylt Nature Conservancy (Naturschutzgemeinschaft Sylt) and County Conservation Administration (Untere Naturschutzbehörde Kreis Nordfriesland); Sylt Island, Germany.

Prescribed fire set in Braderup Heath Conservation Area, 6 August 2014, for the Regeneration of overaged heathland.

Braderup Heath post-fire regeneration five years later (10 August 2019): Healthy regeneration of Calluna vulgaris heath

Public information set up along the fringes of the prescribed burn area.
Source: Naturschutzgemeinschaft Sylt

30 June – 2 July 2006
Prescribed burning operations for conservation of atlantic Calluna heathlands in NW Germany; Luetjenholm, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (in following-up the first prescribed burning operations in September 2002, March 2003 and July 2005)

 

GFMC prescribed burning operations in Atlantic Calluna heathlands
near Luetjenholm, NW Germany, in 2006. Photos: GFMC

6 September 2002
Prescribed burning operations for conservation of heathlands in NW Germany and fire behaviour and fire effects research; Braderup, Sylt Island, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

First GFMC prescribed burning operation in Atlantic Calluna dune heathlands
in Braderup Nature Reserve, Sylt Island, Germany, in 2002. Photo: GFMC

8 September 2001
On-site visit of GFMC for planning prescribed burning in dune heathland conservation on Sylt Island.

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