In Governor Nelson State Park today.
ADDED: Some commenters were puzzled by the scorching, but it's routine and unpuzzling to us. Here's an old post from 2009 — "Smoldering landscape. 'Looks like the day after a battle.' 'Did we just stumble into a forest fire?'":
[W]e ran into the forestry worker who was managing the burning — "prescribed fire" — there in Cherokee Marsh, and he explained how he did it and why. Black cherry trees are always threatening to clutter up the space under the big oaks, and red osier dogwood, if left to their own devices, would turn the marsh into a place where the cranes can't walk.What I wanted people to notice were those humps distributed through the charred field! Those are huge ant hills, and I can verify that the ants did not perish in the fire. They were alive and kicking.
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What happen?
Late this year. Many grassland birds have already arrived.
Our local prairie was burned a month ago, probably will get some of Nelson's birds for the next few weeks (peak migration for many birds).
Next week the warblers arrive and I will be on the creek trail every morning for a few weeks. Its about to be the best bird month of the year in Madison.
Natural potash
Revisit in a few weeks and notice what reemerges first.
I never understood why ash trees had that name until I learned recently that they were the best tree to burn for potash, which was used for cleaning wool, and fetched a fair price in colonial days. Basically almost every hardwood in the Northeast was burned for that, the ashes piled in boats, and shipped off to England.
Fandor said...
What happen?
A Dragon happened. Haven't you seen Desolation of Smaug, Fandor? Geez.
In the elvish language of Quenya, spoken in Middle-Earth, "Fandor" means "Bearded land". You should know this.
Is this a new thing? I've seen many plots of grass being burned in town this year. We've all heard it's part of the "natural cycle", but I've never seen such a wide controlled burn effort being made.
City kids. The prairie should be burned at least every 2-3 years to keep down invasive weeds and to help the native forbs to germinate. Around here (SE Nebr) at lot of it gets burned every year.
Give it two weeks
Horicon marsh was burned yesterday. Link.
I believe you could see the burn at Gov Nelson yesterday as well, from Campus.
Sadly, the top pic reminds me of the Pennsylvania fields after the Battle of Gettysburg.
I don't understand the "I'm proud" accolades? to Bruce Jenner for transitioning out of the gender he was born into.
Up to this point I associated this type of recognition? with people who had overcome an addiction or something like that.
I didn't see the interview, but I don't think Bruce Jenner is saying he/she regrets her past.
I don't think I've ever been more confused by the actions of people in my whole life. Maybe I have and I just don't recall.
How appropriate.
A gofundme account was set up for Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Oregon because a judge has fined them $135k for refusing to make a gay wedding cake..even though they have been served in all other aspects. They have already lost their business and this will break them. They have five kids.
http://danaloeschradio.com/lesbian-couple-claims-mental-rape-at-refusal-of-wedding-cake
And now gofundme removed the campaign because it 'violated' their terms and conditions as the bakery owners broke the law and are now criminals. Disregarding that this is still being litigated and Oregon is violating their 1st Amendment rights.
They can't even raise money to help with legal and domestic bills to stay off welfare.
I was on the fence regarding 'gay marriage'. Not anymore. Go pound sand, gaystapo.
Scorched earth, indeed.
Thanks for the tip Annie
Kudos to the YSU students for hanging the "straight pride" posters on campus. Sums up my views to a T.
Of course the were immediately removed. The posters should be replicated and distributed nation wide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/04/24/youngstown-state-university-student-government-removes-straight-pride-posters/
It's called a controlled burn. It's done every year around here to control unwanted trees and weeds from taking control on land that the DNR wants to look like what they think the original prairie ground looked like. They probably seeded the land down some years ago with prairie grasses.
Back in the 80s when I lived in Corvallis Oregon, vast swaths of the surrounding Willamette Valley were dedicated to growing grass for grass seed. Every year in fall, the farmers would burn the fields, allegedly to kill the weeds that came in, and help the grass stay a monoculture. They tried to make sure it was a day the wind was blowing away from the town or I-5 (where the smoke was sometimes thick enough to cause traffic accidents), but sometimes the wind changed.
I don't know if they still do that.
Contrast The straight pride posters being removed by authorities, because GAY, with the authorities at south Georgia university condoning protests that feature walking on the Flag. Condoning to the extent that they arrested a Veteran for picking up the defiled Flag
If it's a controlled burn, why do they leave the green path?
Green grass does not burn.
The top photo looks like an Anselm Kiefer painting
Here's how you get the ants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
Local controlled burn information:
https://www.facebook.com/StCroixWMD
Scroll down to April 8.
I couldn't trim the "widow makers" off our douglas fir trees that had the habit of harpooning our wooden decks/roof with 10 foot limbs because of the Spotted Owl. These people are torching the trees and underbrush for photo ops for bird watchers in a marsh? So much for natural selection. Marshes, by their very nature, are future land for other flora and fauna. I thought trees were protected for their photosynthesis capabilities.
Southeastern Indian tribes burned off the underbrush on their hunting grounds about once every five years. It favored the deer and other prey they hunted. Many so-called woods arson fires are started by people who continue this practice.
AllenS said...
It's called a controlled burn. It's done every year around here to control unwanted trees and weeds from taking control on land that the DNR wants to look like what they think the original prairie ground looked like. They probably seeded the land down some years ago with prairie grasses.
Prior to europeans either the native americans or natural causes burned large areas of the plains every year. It's how we got nice black topsoil dozens of feet thick.
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