Prescribed Fire
Why You Should Consider Prescribed Burning Throughout the Year
For most prescribed fire practitioners in the Southern Great Plains, burns are conducted during winter and early spring (December to March). This burning season has become commonplace because most of...
It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's the Future.
On a cold, but sunny October day, nearly 100 4-H students filed into the Ardmore Convention Center for their Southeast District Leadership Conference. What would be a day filled with leadership...
Common ag practices key for pollinators, grassland birds
Tools and processes that encourage plant diversity are essential.
Proper livestock stocking rate supports operation, wildlife
Overgrazing can cause poor forage and livestock production, wildlife habitat loss, soil erosion and other problems.
Grazing for wildlife, livestock involves many factors
Grazing management and wildlife management largely address plant community management with considerations involving interconnected, dynamic systems.
Fire characteristics affect prescribed burn success
Learning fire behavior will help burn managers predict potential impacts of a burn before it is conducted.
Education, experience produces successful burn bosses
Anyone can become a burn boss with time and patience.
Key Concepts Regarding Prescribed Fire
Fire is an important process in the ecology of most native plant and animal communities, especially in uplands. Most plant and animal communities in the Great Plains and eastern forests evolved with...
Hello, my name is Vaughn Reed, and I love conducting prescribed burns
One of the many things that I have learned since arriving at the Noble Research Institute is that prescribed burns are a big thing out here.
Early brush control lessens future problems
Woody plants are encroaching rangelands in the Southern Great Plains.