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Prescribed fire
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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 ...