Smoke from prescribed burn in The Point area of the park Credit: NPS photo by Bruce Fields
The Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma is conducting a series of prescribed fires in order to reduce hazardous fuel and the numbers of eastern red cedars.
Red Cedar Slash before the burn. Credit: NPS photo by Bruce NobleFirefighter uses driptorch to ignite prescribed burn Credit: NPS photo by Brent Woffinden
Through the judicious use of chain saws, many of the cedars have already been reduced to slash, so the project is a little like burning a unit that has been selectively logged.
Firefighter ignites prescribed burn with a driptorch Credit: NPS Photo by Bruce Fields
More about the project can be found on InciWeb. This is the first time we have seen a prescribed fire on InciWeb, but it’s a great way to provide the public with information — much more than you would see in a newspaper article. And you don’t have to depend on a reporter to get the facts straight.
Firefighters use flares to ignite portions of the burn unit along the lakeshore Credit: NPS photo by Brent Woffinden
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