What do you do if someboby else is using the firestarter? Spread the prescribe burn with a rake!
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Dog Fire
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?
Is there something in there?
Continue readingPrescribed 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.
Click on any picture for a bigger one. -jsq
Day 1: Planted pines
Continue readingSaw palmetto
Scorched a bit in the prescribed burn a few months ago, and another that was outside the fire break:
Bushy:
Continue readingTame fire
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:
Continue readingGreening and candling burned longleaf
Here’s a slideshow.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman 29 February 2012.
-jsq
Burned-over longleaf
The yellow dog is right: I burned those trees! Before picture of one of them: Continue reading
Burnt stump
The Art of Managing Longleaf
The Art of Managing Longleaf:Leon Neel was a atudent, apprentice, and successor of Herbert Stoddard, who was originally hired by quail plantation owners around Thomasville to figure out why their quail populations were decreasing. The answer included a need to thin and especially to burn their longleaf pine tree forests. Stoddard and Neel studied and practiced for almost a century between them on how to preserve and increase the amount of standing timber and species diversity while also selectively harvesting trees to pay for the whole thing. Their Stoddard-Neel Approach is written up in textbooks. In this book we learn how it came about, and how it is basically different from the clearcut-thin-thin-clearcut “efficient” timbering cycle that is the current fad among pine tree growers in the southeast.
A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach,
by Leon Neel, with Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way.
It starts back in the old days of Leon Neel’s youth when his daddy taught him to hunt quail: Continue reading