Selected Prescribed Burns Photos
Shawnee County, Kansas
Assistance to landowners provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Burning a native grass demonstration plot at an
Outdoor Classroom site.
One reason for a prescribed burns is to reduce woody vegetation.
In the background 10 to 20 foot eastern red cedars, an invader species,
is seen. In the foreground a new crop of cedars can be seen coming on.
Standing 20 foot cedar can be controlled if burn is properly planned.
Even cedars that seem to be only partly burned are
in fact scorched and will brown a day or two after burn.
Fire sweeps up this slope to control years of over growth.
As part of an EQIP contract, cut and piled trees burn on the horizon.
Cedar trees in piles produce intense heat.
Knowing that this type of fire can send hot cinders down
wind hundreds of feet the piles were burned after a rain
with the surrounding vegetation wet.