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OT Flint Hills Burn...........

Goose

Goose

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Nothing personal against anyone from Kansas, but I'll sure be glad when the annual Flint Hills burn is done in Kansas.

With prevailing south winds, the smoke raises hell with allergies and respiratory problems here in eastern Nebraska, mine included. Local TV stations are telling people if they don't work outside, don't go outside. Coupla days ago, visibility was less than a mile, from the smoke.
 

What is the purpose of the Flint Hills burn? I did drive though part of the Flint Hills years ago, nice pasture.

KEH
 
Fire is a very effective way of keeping cedars and other invasive species from taking over. In essence the land owners/managers are just doing what would happen naturally, just in a more controlled manner. Before "civilization" was here nobody would have stopped fires started by lightening and it was nature's way of rejuvenating the prairies. If we get all the rain they're predicting in the next few days within a few weeks the burned areas will be lush green.
 
Several advantages to doing it.
It will: Kill bugs, kill Eastern Red Cedar trees, invigorates growth in the pasture grass and some studies show that cattle have faster growth when they eat grass that has sprouted up after a pasture burn.
 
I believe that I read that the native Americans used to set fire to the prairies to burn the old grass off.This would rejuvenate the grasses and encourage buffalo to return to graze.Mark
 
Same reason I burn waterways I haven't hayed the year before. When the native prairie grass gets taller nothing wants to eat it. It's like straw. If you have something on it that eats it as it is growing in spring it usually doesn't get big and rank. Problem is that when you have pastures that are thousands of acres often cattle eat what's more lush in the draws and leave lots of it to get too big. Burning it gets rid of that thatch and away it goes. Cedars are pretty invasive - it gets rid of those, too.
 
Farmers down in Central America do it every winter and spring. We get that smoky haze nearly every spring.
Back in 1998 the fires got out of control and burned till July.
We hardly saw the sun for the first seven months.
 
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