After the prescribed burn, it’s a lot easier to see, and there are more gopher tortoise burrows than we thought.
Here’s another Gopherus polyphemus near the road. It’s good there are so many. Gophers are a keystone species, hosting Continue reading
Could this be a problem?
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What do you do if someboby else is using the firestarter? Spread the prescribe burn with a rake!
Yellow Dog is really not easily impressed.
Burning the woods 10 feet in front of her dog house produced a lot of smoke, as you can see.
Did she care?
Gretchen and I burned some woods the last couple days. Here’s why we burn: longleaf pine unharmed, while small trees of other species (slash and loblolly pine, an especially oaks) are weeded out by the fire.
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Scorched a bit in the prescribed burn a few months ago, and another that was outside the fire break:
Bushy:
Continue readingTame fire and tamed ashes:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 and 2 February 2013.
See nosy neighbors and county fire dept? There was no wildfire. It was merely a tame fire.
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Acording to U.S. Drought Monitor, drought throughout south Georgia and surrounding areas is either extreme or exceptional, and has been for months.
Here you can see detail for Georgia:
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Back in December
we burned some planted longleaf.
Six weeks later, they’re greening up and candling.
I couldn’t find a single longleaf that didn’t survive.
Even ones that a few weeks ago you would have thought
were burnt sticks now have green leaves or white candles
or both.
Here’s a slideshow.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman 29 February 2012.
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