Authors: Jamey Lowdermilk, Jennifer Fawcett
The Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) works across geographic and organizational boundaries to overcome development pressures in select areas for management of military lands, compatible resource-use decisions, and coordination among regions, states, communities, and military services. The Comprehensive Strategy for Prescribed Fire to Restore Longleaf Pine in the Southeast was written to fulfill SERPPAS’s Strategic Action Plan goal of developing a comprehensive, regional strategy for increasing prescribed burning in the Southeast. The vision of the Strategy was to have region-wide application of prescribed fire at the scale and frequency needed for longleaf pine restoration and maintenance. Since a majority of forestland in the The southern region is privately held, and an important goal of the Strategy was to minimize landowners’ risk of liability associated with prescribed fire.
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Regional conservation partnerships
Supporting access to well-managed DOW lands, waters, and airspace by safeguarding natural ecosystems critical to the military mission.
Suggested Citation
Cary, B., Lowdermilk, J., & Fawcett, J. E. (2026). 2025 Prescribed Fire Liability Report for the Southern United States: A Summary of Statutes and Cases. Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability.
