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Title: Southeast Louisiana Refuges: Field Trips for Schools
Type: Education
Jurisdiction: State
State: Louisiana
Program Description: The Southeast Louisiana Refuges division of the US Fish and Wildlife Service offers field trips to school children to educate them fire ecology in the Louisiana marsh, swamp and pine forest ecosystem. The Southeast Lousiana Refuges website provides information on the field trips offered in Bayou Sauvage and Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge. Several field trips are offered which teach about widfire, including: "Refugology" and "Friendly Flames." "Friendly Flames" is supported by a National Fire Plan grant for the 2003-4 school year.

Friendly Flames

The newly developed "Friendly Flames" program is geared for 7th and 8th grade students. The program is a joint venture between The St. Tammany Parish School system, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, and The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The program teaches about fire from a biological perspective. There are three activity sections to the program.

Students learn about some of the animals that depend on fire, and how some animals use fire to their advantage. The Audubon Louisiana Nature Center brings examples of these animals to the site, and explains the adaptations and interdependencies between these creatures and fire.

Students also learn about pyrophytes, plants that are adapted to fire, and the different ways that they survive fire. The students do an activity where they create their own pyrophyte, and explain its survival style to their classmates.

Fire management is the third and last activity in "Friendly Flames." In this activity students learn about fire breaks, what a controlled burn is, and how fire crews mitigate the inherent dangers of fighting forest fires. The culmination of this activity is when the students dress out in Nomex and see different ignition techniques, and use a variety of tools to put out the fire.

To prepare the class for a visit to the Big Branch Marsh, teachers receive a pre-visit package that includes resource materials, an outline, and a copy of the CD-ROM "Burning Issues."

Contact Information

For more information, contact Douglas Hunt at 985-882-2024, or by email at [email protected].

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Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service / Southern Research Station
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