Is it just me or are they way less common than they used to be? I have heard they can be a beneficial management tool. I suppose there's just too much liability with them around here.

well it is none right now burn ban with covid DNR stopped issuing and burn permits

they are doing them some here with prairie restoration.

Hard to burn 6 feet of snow

Every spring we burn here to clean out the ferns. Sometimes you live in the smoke for days. When we get a dry south wind everybody burns. Ours is only about twenty acres but some are huge.

Pete

The very southwest corner of France in the mountains. I can drive to Spain in a half an hour on a forest road.

Pete

dnr are the only ones who can do prescribed burns here when it gets away from them all they say is "Worked out better then we expected"

we've had two around me in the last 6 months

Control burns are a useful tool to manage warm season grasses and forbs. There are many acres of this type of cover in CRP. There is a narrow window in Spring and Fall when these can be done. Factors that influence control burns are : weather (wetness, dryness, wind conditions, etc), proximity of T&E Species, adjacent land use.

headed out to go light up our last burn for the year hopefully. About 640 acres today

We're doing more and more every year here.

I got an email from FSA (farm service agency) the other day asking for us not to burn. They said the smoke is hard on lungs and emergency personnel at this time with CV19.

That's like a sq mile. How many guys?

Only 1 section Yessir? What a bunch of slackers. It's a good thing yall can ranch rodeo I
guess!

There are others here that have more knowledge and experience with prescriber burns than I As stated burning off the woody growth allows the grass to come back and be a better food source for animals .Wildlife and domestic livestock both benefit Those burns also help the ground nesting songbirds that use the grass fields for nesting and raising their young ones Fire was a regular thing before the days of Smokey the Bear .Than every fire was a bad fire Many of the massive wildfires over the last 10 or so years are the result of too much tinder laying around because every fire is pit out. Controlled burns and natural fire are good for people ,livestock ,wildlife and the ecosystem

pa farm bureau totes its benefits.

The DNR and the feds to burns here every year on all the grasslands and WPA's. They also burn the "bird sanctuary" up by the cabin every year

Heard there were no burn permits in Michigan either didn't know why probably same reason Pawnee