Chris Hardie: DNR prescribed burns restore the land


Chris Hardie: DNR prescribed burns restore the land


Let’s take a trip back in time — more than 300 years ago — to before the days of European settlement in Wisconsin. Native Americans lived here, but the state had virtually no agriculture. It was covered in virgin prairie and great forests. It was a true wilderness.

But about every one to three years fires swept through the state’s great grasslands — sometimes set by Native Americans and sometimes caused by lightning strikes. And going back eons, even the hardwood forests burned every 500 to 1,000 years....

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Ken Notes: I like this and have seen it work first hand...

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