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re: Tree Canopy and controlled burns
Posted on 12/17/23 at 12:35 pm to PetroAg
Posted on 12/17/23 at 12:35 pm to PetroAg
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Guarantee our BLH would burn right now.
I bet alot of them would burn right now...burn right to the ground...
j/k It's so dry everywhere, even with the rain we've been getting. I checked on one of my favorite duck sloughs, and it's still bone dry with 2-3" cracks.
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hackberry, gum
Assuming you mean sweetgum, this is exactly why most of our BLH could not even carry a fire today, let alone benefit from it. Sweetgum is one of those mesophytic species that reduces the ability of a stand to carry a fire. We have so much of that in an near every BLH stand I see that the only way it would burn is to do some serious cutting and spraying first. I think it was Reb that brought that up earlier.
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Posted on 12/18/23 at 7:06 am to Cowboyfan89
Yeah I’m not trying to carry a fire across an entire closed canopy forest, especially since we backup to kisatchie. I was thinking clearing out some of the gum and hackberry and leaving the oaks in little 5-10 acre tracts. I am trying to setup a meeting with a state wildlife biologist so we will see what they say. Burning may not be our best bet, I just want something I can maintain without chainsaws every 5 years.
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