PRESCRIBED BURNING IN BADEN WÜRTTEMBER STATE, GERMANY
Prescribed Burning in Kaiserstuhl Project
Fire Ecology Research Group
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Landschaftserhaltungsverband Emmendingen
The project “Fire in Landscape Management in Germany: The Kaiserstuhl Area in Baden Württemberg State” was a research and development project of the Fire Ecology Research Group / global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, c/o University of Freiburg. Between 1997 and 2000, the Phase I of the project was supported by the Ministry for Rural Space (Ministerium Ländlicher Raum) Baden-Württemberg State, Germany. After 2000, various on-site investigations and publications followed.
- Fire in Landscape Management in Germany: The Kaiserstuhl Area in Baden Württemberg State (Background and rationale, site description)
- The First Long-Term Pilot Project in Germany in the Kaiserstuhl Viticulture Area, Baden-Württemberg State (International Forest Fire News No. 30, 2004) (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Abschlussbericht “Grossversuch zum Feuer-Management auf den Rebböschungen des Kaiserstuhls” (Final summary report in German, without detailed annexes – 2001) (PDF, 0.2 MB
- Abschlussbericht “Grossversuch zum Feuer-Management auf den Rebböschungen des Kaiserstuhls” 2001 (Final summary report submitted to the Baden Württemberg State Ministry for Agriculture; in German, with detailed annexes – 2001) (PDF, 4.0 MB)
- Böschungspflege und Feuereinsatz im Rebgebiet: Leitfaden für die Praxis (Guidelines for Practice – edited by / herausgegeben vom Landschaftserhaltungsverband Emmendingen e.V., 2006, in German) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Ökologisches Monitoring zur kaiserstuhlweiten Integration eines Feuer-Managements in die Böschungspflege. Endbericht Untersuchungszeitraum 2002-2005 (in German, published 2006) (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- Weiher, J.O., U. Schraml, H. Page, and J.G. Goldammer. 2000. Feuer in der Landschaftspflege. Analyse eines Interessenkonflikts aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 32, 250-253.
- Example of an annual decree by the Baden-Württemberg Subregional State Administration (Regierungspräsidium Freiburg) regulating the use of prescribed fire in managing slopes in viticulture areas (2013, in German) (PDF, 0.1 MB)
Related activities and publications
Germany
- EU LIFE-Nature “Rohrhardsberg, Obere Elz und Wilde Gutach”
- Nationwide Training Sessions for the Use of Prescribed Fire in Conservation by the German Federal Forest Service
- GFMC Prescribed Burning Operations for Restoration and Maintenance of Calluna vulgaris Dune Heath Conservation Areas
International
- Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network
- Symposium on Fire Management in Cultural and Natural Landscapes, Nature Conservation and Forestry in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia (25-27 January 2008, Freiburg, Germany) (with reports from the Kaiserstuhl project)
- White Paper on Use of Prescribed Fire in Land Management, Nature Conservation and Forestry in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia – Prepared at the occasion of the Symposium on Fire Management in Cultural and Natural Landscapes, Nature Conservation and Forestry in Temperate-Boreal Eurasia (25-27 January 2008)
- Goldammer, J.G. (ed.) 2013. Prescribed Burning in Russia and Neighbouring Temperate-Boreal Eurasia. A publication of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). Kessel Publishing House, 326 p. (ISBN 978-3-941300-71-2).
- Fire Paradox (website @GFMC; original website is expired): https://gfmc.online/conferences/2010-01.html
