Name that Bird
This keystone species is the only woodpecker to drill its nesting cavities in live pine trees, usually ones softened with red heart fungus.
What is the Red Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)?
This kind of fire uses a written burn plan to meet specific management objectives and is implemented under specific weather conditions and parameters.
What is a prescribed fire?
This fire-adapted tree has 3 main stages of growth: the grass stage, bottlebrush or rocket stage, and the sapling stage.
What is Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris)?
This common and highly adaptable mammal was designated as South Carolina's official State Animal in 1972.
What is the White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)?
58
This bird is North Americas smallest, most colorful falcon, and you can find 58 man-made nest boxes for this species around Fort Jackson.
What is the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)?
The fire triangle consists of three elements: Fuel, Heat, and _____.
What is oxygen?
There are three sub species of this carnivorous plant found on Fort Jackson.
What is a Pitcher Plant?
This arboreal rodent has darkened gray or all black fur that will camouflauge them in recently burned areas, where they can forage easily among the knocked back vegetation.
What is the Southern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger niger)?
How many types of pine trees can be found on Fort Jackson?
7 (Longleaf, Loblolly, Slash, Shortleaf, Pond, Virginia, Eastern White)
This unique bird is one of the few waterfowl species that perch and nest in trees and are the only North American waterfowl that regularly raise two broods in one year, often returning to the same nesting site to do so.
What is the Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)?
Many plant and animal species are dependent upon periodic fire to maintain a suitable, early-successional, habitat for their growth and reproduction. Name one of these species found on Fort Jackson.
Acceptable answers: Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Longleaf Pine, Eastern Towhee, Smooth Coneflower, Rough-leaf Loosestrife, Indigo Bunting, etc.
There are two endangered plant species found on Fort Jackson, name one of these species. Bonus Points: Name both species
What is Smooth Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) or Rough-leaf Loosestrife (Lysimachia asperulaefolia)?
Although considered endangered, vulnerable, or imperiled in most northern states, this reptile is the most common rattlesnake species found in South Carolina.
What is the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)?
How many prescribed burns were conducted in 2025?
56
This backyard bird became the official state bird of South Carolina in 1948 after replacing the mockingbird.
What is the Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)?
This fire behavior element is the most variable component of the fire environment and can change rapidly due to changes in air masses, the diurnal cycle (nighttime to daytime), and local influences such as topography.
What is weather?
This eye-catching flowering pollinator plant can be found on rocky slopes on Fort Jackson and has a common name that might fool you into thinking you are somewhere else.
What is Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)?
This mammal was proposed to be listed as endangered in 2022 under the Endangered Species Act due to the impacts of white-nose syndrome.
What is the Tri-Colored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus)?
According to the most recent data, how many total living RCW trees (not including start trees) are currently in our database?
1378