Rx Effects Newsletter
Rx Effects is the newsletter of the Fire Effects Monitoring Program in the National Park Service. It is an outlet for information on Fire Effects Monitoring, FFI, fire research and other types of wildland fire monitoring.
Subscription Information
If you would like a subscription please contact the Editor via e-mail or phone at (540) 999-3500 ext. 3323
Submission Guidelines
The newsletter is produced annually for the National Park Service but we encourage anyone with an interest in fire ecology to submit information about their program or research.
The deadline for submissions is the last Friday in February. Submissions will be accepted at any time in any format (e.g., hard copy through the mail or files attached to email). Remember that Rx Effects is a newsletter, not a peer-reviewed journal. The intent is light, informative reading. Articles should be short and cover the highlights of your topic. Please provide your contact information so that if a reader is interested in more details he or she can reach you. We suggest articles be written in a newspaper format with the important points at the top and the supporting details at the bottom. Articles should target no more than 500–1000 words or 1–2 type-written pages. Metric system units are preferred. In all cases the Editor will attempt to preserve the intent of your submitted article but also reserves the right to edit or shorten it.
Examples of submissions include:
- Contact information for your program
- Summaries of your program's goals, objectives and achievements
- Monitoring successes and failures
- Modifications to plot protocols that work for your park
- Hints for streamlining data collection, entry and analysis
- Data entry and analysis
- Event schedules
- Abstracts of papers or posters resulting from your program
Present and Past Issues
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 11, Spring 2012
Biotic and Abiotic Factors Contributing to New Mexico’s Largest Wildfire: The Las Conchas Fire; Building Resilient Native Hawaiian Ecosystems in a Novel Fire Regime; Changes in Forest Community Structure and Fuel Loading Following the American Elk Prescribed Fire; A comparison of spring and summer fires in red and white pine stands at Voyageurs National Park; The Wildfire Ecology of Wetland Landscapes; Fire Fuels Research in the War on Buffelgrass; Fire Consortia Get Rolling Nationwide; FFI – What can the new version do for you?; New Fuels Map for Shenandoah National Park; Easy to Use Interactive Excel Tool Available to Analyze Paired Data; Sherry Leis Receives Outstanding Young Range Professional Award.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 10, Fall 2011
Articles include Impacts of mountain pine beetle on lodgepole pine fire behavior; FFI—Less is More; 1st Annual NER/SER Fire Ecology Summit; Monitoring the Effects of Fire on the Exotic Fern, Lygodium microphyllum, in the Coastal Prairies of Everglades National Park; Fire Effects Crews as Firefighters: Improving the Value and Validity of our Programs; Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity; Fire Management Prioritization Modeling Methodology; Training for Resource Advisors Enhances Resource Protection during Incidents; Post Fire Programs; Fire Effects Photo Contest; and How to Submit to Rx Fx.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 9, Fall 2010
Articles include Burn Severity Thresholding Using ZunZun and the CBI Thresholding Tool; Fire Ecology on the Rim, Grand Canyon National Park; Strategies for efficient early detection of invasive plants after prescribed fire; Fire Ecology Weighs in on Natural Resource Condition Assessments; FFI—Keeping Pace with Technology...; An Oak Forest Overstory Assessment Base on Growth Form Characteristics; Upcoming Conferences; Black Hills Thinning and Chipping: Initial Results; Photo Contest; and How to Submit to Rx Fx.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 8, Fall 2009
Articles include Integration of Fire and Exotics Management in Everglades National Park; FFI Update; Searching for Ski Poles in Glacier National Park; Combining Monitoring and Research Data to Manage Fire in Mexican Spotted Owl Critical Habitat on the North Rim of Grand Canyon; Yet Another Way to Monitor Shrubs...; Stats 911; Monitoring an Alaskan Tundra Mega-Fire; Using Prescribed Fire to Reduce Fuels at El Malpais National Monument; Upcoming Conferences and How to Submit to Rx Fx; Photo Contest.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 7, Spring 2008
Articles include Filling the "Donut Hole": Fire Ecology in the Central Grasslands, Northern Great Plains News: Interagency Cooperation on the NGP, Pineland Croton and Butterfly Habitat in Everglades National Park, Rx Effects Lives to Fight Another Day, FFI and You, Note From the Editor, Fire Effects Photo Contest, The Lighter Side, and Upcoming Conferences.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 6, Spring 2006
Articles about Southern California Shrublands; Burn Severity Effects in NW Wyoming; Clear Trap Rx Burn: Short Term Treatment Results, Zion National Park; Northern Great Plains News; 20 Years of Rx Fire, Big Creek Rx, Yosemite NP; Fuel Appraisal Photoseries for Yellowstone NP; Teton Interagency Fire Effects Symposium; Yosemite National Park Fire Science Symposium; The Lighter Side.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 5, Spring 2005
Articles about Northern Great Plains News; Benefits of Fall Burning for Maintaining Yellow Pine Ecosystems; Linking the Fire Environment to Fire Effects; 18 Plot Situations that Shout Watch Out; Nonparametric Tests; Midwest Regional Fire Ecology Meeting; Canopy Fuels and Crown Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine; Pacific West Region Fire Ecology Meeting.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 4, Spring 2004
Articles about FEAT l Statistics Workshop; Monitoring Mechanical Fuel Reduction in Ponderosa Pine; Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership; Crown Fire and Canopy Bulk Density Thresholds; Restoration of the Blackbelt Prairie; Fire and Yellow Pine Communities in the Smokies; A Fuels Photoseries for Post-Fire Lodgepole Pine; Interagency Fire Effects Meeting in the Tetons.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 3, Spring 2003
Articles about The Crown Spacing Conundrum; Modelling Reburn Potential in Lodgepole Pine; FMH Poetry!; Fire Effects in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems; Submission Information.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2002
Articles about Grand Teton National Park; Western Region Fire Ecology Center; Bryce Canyon & Zion; Glacier National Park; Yellowstone National Park; Joshua Tree National Park.
Rx Effects—Volume 1, Issue 1, Fall 2000
Articles about Glacier National Park; Grand Teton National Park; The Nature Conservancy; Yellowstone National Park; Remote Sensing; Bryce Canyon and Zion Results; Long-term Postfire Succession in Yellowstone.
If you would like a subscription, to submit an article, or more information please contact:
Missy Forder
Sheandoah National Park
3655 U.S. Highway 211 East
Luray, VA 22835
(540)999-3500 ext. 3323
melissa_forder@nps.gov
