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| Sand
Ridge Prairie Prescribed Burn |
Long
Forestry's Burn Crew traveled to Sand Ridge
Prairie near Peoria, Illinois to do a burn
with the Illinois DNR on November 9, 2010.
With dry conditions, good weather, and good
fire breaks the burn was a great success.
The burn was on an old field with remnants
of native sand prairie and savanna.
The main goals for the fall burn were to
discourage woody encroachment of the prairie
and to promote native prairie species.
This was accomplished due to a hot fire and
nearly continuous coverage. Small
cedars and pines that have encroached onto
the prairie the past couple of years were
killed while the small encroaching black
oaks were top killed. These trees will
vigorously re-sprout and produce multiple
sprout oak bushes, which is a desirable
savanna feature. The larger black oaks
were not largely damaged by the fire,
although fire scars will be evident on some
trees, which is another desirable savanna
feature. Several brush piles, a result
of previous clearing efforts, were also
consumed by fire.
On the same day the
crew burned a smaller native prairie with an
important population of bird foot violet.
As a result of this burn, the first in many
years, an impressive floral display is
expected in 2011, along with a thicker and
healthier re-growth of native prairie
grasses.
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| The Long
Forestry Burn Crew |
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Tom Lerczak of the Illinois DNR conducts
the pre burn meeting. Tom was the burn
boss on this fire. |
 LFC
employee Zuri Moreno ignites the prairie
grasses as Mike and Matios hold the line in
the background. |
| Below Chris
and Mike hold the fire line from both sides. |
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Mike mops up after a very hot fire. |
| After the
burn hundreds of prickly pear fruits were
exposed in this unique sand prairie
ecosystem. |
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