What UWEX and the DNR agreed on

Wisconsin printed one guide with two numbers. UW-Extension GWQ 049 is also DNR PUB-FR-417-2008 (February 2009 imprint, ©2008 Board of Regents). Keep the first 3-to-5 feet around the house completely free of any fuel. In the Great Lakes region, red pine and jack pine are the most flammable tree species and can carry burning embers up to a mile. WI DNR Ready, Set, Go: spring and fall are the primary wildfire seasons; Zone One is 3–5 feet. This directory stores that 2008 guide as the wdnr-uwex lineage (21 plant records). Pinus resinosa currently computes as avoid and includes WI.

You are in a central-sands plantation treating the dairy-county maple as the Wisconsin plant. The co-published book is written for pine needles and lake lots. Minnesota DNR hosts a copy. That is not a second Steward vote. See the Steward rule.

This is not a Wisconsin doorway.

Why it matters

A co-published list is still a list. It is not a calorimeter, and it is not Zone 0. GWQ 049 already emptied the first 3-to-5 feet. Ready, Set, Go repeats that band and names pine plantations in Zone Four. Kirtland’s warbler country is the jack-pine fire ecology one lake over. This page is the Wisconsin home-ignition version.

This site’s Wisconsin plant evidence combines 459 occurrence records with 21 exact co-published source owners. Minnesota’s mirror remains one distribution path for the same Wisconsin lineage, not a second vote.

How it works

What GWQ 049 / FR-417 actually is:

• One PDF, two catalog numbers. DNR Service Centers and UW-Extension Publications. ©2008 UW System. February 2009 on the colophon.
• Great Lakes WUI: woodlot, suburban fringe, lots around a lake.
• Surface fire: pine needles, leaves, grass, logs, stumps, limbs, low shrubs. Crown fire: canopy to canopy; embers onto the house.
• HIZ 100–200 feet.
• 3-to-5 feet at the foundation: no fuel. Tall grasses and evergreen shrubs next to siding put flame on the wall. Leaves, pine needles, straw, organic mulch can smolder after the front has passed.
• Red pine and jack pine: most flammable trees in the region; embers up to a mile. Pine forest or pine plantation: thin and prune out to 200 feet. Dead snags as chimneys. Firebrands on roofs, gutters, under decks, along the foundation.
• Do not rake leaves into deep woods piles.
• Named Firewise Plant sidebars (nannyberry, columbine, moss phlox, among others) and a shoreland-buffer sampling table.
• This directory ingested 22 verifiable taxa from those profiles and the wet-habitat table as wdnr-uwex. 21 live plant records currently cite it. Listed = recommend. Small corroborator beside thicker lineages.

What Ready, Set, Go adds (WI DNR):

• Spring and fall primary seasons; fire any time the ground is not snow-covered.
• “Studies show” as many as 80 percent of homes lost could have been saved by a few Firewise practices. That sentence is printed in the pamphlet; this page does not re-open the underlying study.
• Not enough firefighters for every house in a major event.
• Firebrands more than half a mile.
• Zone One 3–5 feet: remove anything that can burn; deciduous over evergreen if you plant; rock mulch not wood.
• Zone Two 5–30: lean, clean, green; limbs 6 feet up and 10 feet from roofs.
• Zone Three 30–100: 20 feet between trees; favor deciduous.
• Zone Four 100–200: slopes and pine plantations — remove forest-floor debris; thin canopies.

This directory:

• Pinus resinosa avoid, WI.
• Pinus strobus avoid, WI.
• No stored Pinus banksiana record. The guide still names jack pine in the ember sentence.
• Viburnum lentago on-list; featured Firewise Plant profile on the 2008 guide.
• Aquilegia canadensis on-list; featured profile.
• Arctostaphylos uva-ursi on-list.

See how to read a plant page.

The paths

What people mix up

• UWEX and DNR as two Steward votes. They numbered the same book twice.
• A featured nannyberry profile with a permit to plant in the 3-to-5-foot band.
• White pine avoid with jack pine (no stored record) as if the guide only meant red pine.
• Ready, Set, Go’s 80 percent sentence as a Wisconsin field study this session opened.
• 459 USDA rows as the 22-taxon extract.
• Zone 0 as optional in a pine plantation.

How to check

1. Open GWQ 049. Read the colophon (FR-417-2008, GWQ 049), 3-to-5 feet, and the red pine and jack pine paragraph.
2. Open Ready, Set, Go. Read spring and fall and Zone One 3–5 feet.
3. Open Pinus resinosa and Viburnum lentago.
4. Open the Steward rule before counting the Minnesota host.
5. Open Wisconsin plant evidence.
6. Do not plant in Zone 0.

Limits

This page quotes the opened GWQ 049 PDF and the opened WI DNR Ready, Set, Go PDF. Live dnr.wisconsin.gov “Preparing Your Property” HTML was not the text source. The 80 percent figure is printed in Ready, Set, Go as “studies show”; the underlying study was not re-opened. No Pinus banksiana YAML is stored; jack pine is quoted only as the guide names it. 21 and 459 are stored counts as of this writing. Zone 0 is not a planting list.

Related records

• Pinus resinosa
• Pinus strobus
• Viburnum lentago
• Aquilegia canadensis
• Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
• Wisconsin plant evidence
• The Steward rule
• What Kirtland’s warbler country teaches
• How to read a plant page
• Zone 0