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Prescribed fire
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Landscape Spotlight: Comanche Pool Grazing Lands In Kansas And Oklahoma
January 14, 2026
Private ranchers in the southern Great Plains are pooling resources for prescribed burns that minimize wildfire damage and regenerate ...
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Strong Conservation Team Helps Transform Historic Land into Quail, Monarch Habitat
August 20, 2025
With help from the USDA-NRCS's Working Lands for Wildlife, Barb Heyen restored her Illinois grasslands for quail, monarchs, and ...
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Unique Threatened Species Benefits from Large-scale Grassland Conservation
December 3, 2024
Research shows that long-term, coordinated restoration of tree-encroached grasslands benefits the threatened American Burying ...
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Where Trees Are the Problem
April 10, 2024
Learn about how woody species expansion or tree encroachment is impacting sagebrush and grassland ecosystems in this story from the North American Grouse Partnership ...
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More woody encroachment means more wildfire risk. Prescribed fire can lower it.
April 12, 2023
WLFW-affiliated research details the risk of increasing wildfire in the Great Plains due to woody encroachment and how prescribed fires help reduce that ...
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A Landowner’s Journey to Using Prescribed Fire – Repost – Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
December 9, 2020
Jim Jenkins worked to remove eastern redcedar trees from his Nebraska ranch for years, with limited success. Then he learned about how prescribed fire could do the work for ...
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A Tale of Two Fires: Prescribed Fire Thwarts Wildfire on the New Mexico Prairie
November 29, 2017
NEWS: Two lightning-caused wildfires on the same site in eastern New Mexico yielded profoundly different results. Why? Prescribed fire played a key ...