Tag Archives: Fire

Prescribed burns

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.


Why we burn: longleaf unharmed

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Day 1: Planted pines

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Protracted extreme drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, 2012-05-08

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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Greening and candling burned longleaf



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.





Longleaf greening after fire, Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia.

Pictures by John S. Quarterman 29 February 2012.

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