Ingen katastrof : Om naturguidning i brandområden i skyddad västlig taiga

Fire is a vital part of the taiga ecosystems and as the amount of prescribed fires increases, it is also likely that public awareness and interest in fire increases and thereby also the need for nature interpreters who can perform guided tours in these areas. This report aims to provide guidance for...

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Main Author: Bremer, Edith
Format: Bachelor Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2018
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149360
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Summary:Fire is a vital part of the taiga ecosystems and as the amount of prescribed fires increases, it is also likely that public awareness and interest in fire increases and thereby also the need for nature interpreters who can perform guided tours in these areas. This report aims to provide guidance for nature interpreters as to what information they should convey while guiding groups of people in taiga forests where fire has occurred. The methods used to study this were: 1) Interviews with conservationists who work with forest fire in some way on what information they think is important to convey and 2) a web survey in which respondents answered questions about their knowledge and feelings about forest fire. Based on the results of the interviews it is concluded that the focus of the guided tour should be on explaining fire as a natural phenomenon of the taiga and its role in the dynamics of the taiga. Based on the result of the web survey it is also concluded that the guide should bear in mind that though the participants of the tour may well be aware that fire is beneficial for the taiga they may not know how and why that is, nor what happens if the taiga does not burn, and some effort should thus be put into explaining those mechanisms. Eld är en livsviktig del i taigans ekosystem och medan mängden genomförda naturvårdsbränder ökar är det också rimligt att tro att allmänhetens medvetenhet och intresse för brand ökar. Därigenom kan också behovet av guidade turer i brandområden öka. Målet med denna rapport är att ge vägledning till guider om vilken information som bör förmedlas under guidade turer i brandområden. Metoderna för att studera detta var: 1) intervjuer med naturvårdare som på något sätt jobbar med brand och 2) en webbenkät där respondenter svarar på frågor om deras kunskap om, och inställning till, brand. Baserat på resultaten från intervjuerna dras slutsatsen att fokus i de guidade turerna bör ligga på att förmedla att brand är ett naturligt fenomen och vilken roll branden har i taigans dynamik. ...