Audience: Burn crew members, land managers, and post-burn monitoring leads 

Examines the relationship between prescribed fire and invasive species at the landscape scale, covering pre-burn conditions that predict invasive flushes, species commonly problematic in post-fire South Bay habitats (including yellow starthistle, French broom, Himalayan blackberry, and others), and how burn timing and intensity affect outcomes. Participants will learn to design burn plans with invasive species management goals in mind and understand how monitoring data feeds into adaptive management and future burn planning. Framing throughout treats prescribed burns as ecological tools, not only fuel reduction tools.