John Weir

Editor of "Global Application of Prescribed Fire"

January 10, 2022

John Weir is an associate extension specialist in the Natural Resource Ecology and Management Department at Oklahoma State University. He teaches two prescribed fire courses, conducts fire ecology research and has extension responsibilities relating to prescribed fire training and working with landowners to form prescribed burn associations. He has assisted with forming over 40 burn associations in nine states. In the past 30 years, he has conducted over 1,300 prescribed burns in vegetation ranging from shortgrass prairie to Oak-Pine forest in seven states and Canada. He also has another book out titled "Conducted Prescribed Fires: A Comprehensive Manual." He is currently the president of the Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association and on the board of directors for the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils, Great Plains Fire Science Exchange and Oak Woodland and Forest Fire Consortium, along with the advisory board of the Southern Fire Exchange. He was just nominated and confirmed to the USDA Secretary of Agriculture’s Air Quality Task Force. In 2015, he received the Henry Wright Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Fire Ecology.

"Global Application of Prescribed Fire" provides a first-hand perspective of the various methods and ways people around the world view and use prescribed fire. It covers the logistics, constraints and social dynamics surrounding the intentional use and application of fire by humans, and demonstrates how, why, when and where prescribed fire is used in different regions. Written by international experts, the book has four key objectives:

Explore new techniques, ideas, and thoughts on how to apply prescribed fire from a global perspective.
Provide regional case studies covering issues that may constrain or enhance prescribed fire projects.
Stimulate cross-cultural conversations about how fires function in ecosystems.
Relate prescribed fire to wildfire regimes with implications for protecting life and property, as well as sustaining local fire cultures and unique fire-dependent flora and fauna.

"Global Application of Prescribed Fire" enhances our understanding and knowledge about the application of prescribed fire. This comprehensive book will provide fire practitioners, researchers, agencies and policymakers with key ecological and managerial insight into how prescribed fires are conducted around the globe.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2022-honorees/john-weir

Last Updated: 19 January 2022