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Summer Fire Field Day
To help people understand growing season burns, Oklahoma State University’s Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management is hosting a training seminar. “We’re trying to get rid of that old mentality people grew up with that you can’t burn in the summer because it doesn’t benefit anything,” said John Weir, OSU Cooperative Extension rangeland ecology and management specialist. “It’s not what they imagine in their minds; it’s going to kill the grass, it’s a raging inferno and it can’t achieve the goals that we need.” The one-day training will begin at 9 a.m. with registration. At 9:30 a.m., an introductory discussion to burning in the growing season will take place, followed by a free lunch. Immediately following lunch, Weir will conduct a prescribed burn, weather permitting. The Summer Fire Field Day training session is free and open to everyone. Those interested in attending should contact Weir by June 6 at 405-744-5442 or by email at john.weir@okstate.edu to RSVP. The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Noble Research Institute, Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association, Quail Forever, National Wild Turkey Federation and Great Plains Fire Science Exchange are sponsoring the event. |
