Here’s why we should have burned this patch last year, but unfortunately weather didn’t cooperate.
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Why frequent burning is necessary
If we didn’t burn, eventually what we’d get would be an uncontrolled wildfire with much worse flareups than that.
Somebody always complains about burning woods. Let the Longleaf Alliance explain the benefits of fire in a southern pine forest.
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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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