The frogs sang as the sparks flew upward.
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This one could be my favorite: Continue reading
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Prescribed burn, 1.6 acres planted pines 2020-02-24
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.
It started easy this year. Continue reading
Prescribed Burn
Less than an acre of planted pines, never burned since planted ten years ago.
Lit right up, burned real nice.
Here are some videos, and there are pictures below. Continue reading
Spreading Fire
What do you do if someboby else is using the firestarter? Spread the prescribe burn with a rake!
Getting lit
Why not to wait 20 years between burns
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.
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 readingOld Road
This is a road, at least a hundred years old, after a prescribed burn:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 March 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman
Those are mostly slash pines (Pinus elliottii), with one or two longleaf and some oaks.
-jsq
Burning some piney woods 2012 01 31
Why to burn more frequently:
vines grow up trees and form ladder fuels
Prescribed burn of some piney woods at Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Fortunately these vines were mostly in
invasive exotics anyway
(chinaberry, mimosa, Japanese privet) that had grown up along the field edge.
After a few minutes,
here’s the result.
Most of the rest of the woods burned much more evenly, with flames only a foot or two above the ground.