Prescribed Fire
Growing-Season Burns Hold Potential for Fall and Winter Forage
The traditional burning season for the Southern Great Plains goes from December to April. However, when land managers limit their burn season to these five months, they often find it difficult to implement the number of burns needed to achieve their goals. This is one reason why more and more land managers are conducting growing-season burns, during late spring through early fall months, to meet some of their prescribed burning goals.
Improve Nutrition for White-Tailed Deer With Growing-Season Prescribed Burns
Habitat includes food, water, shelter, space and the arrangement of these components, though land managers and popular press most popularly discuss food. Food can easily be managed, and many times the focus is only on food plots and feeders. Native vegetation can take a back seat to these intensive management practices, but people should be aware how to manage existing native vegetation to provide a high quality diet.
Is Prescribed Fire a Friend or Foe to Soil Health?
Without fire on rangelands, many of the soil health building principles are much harder to achieve.
Producer Spotlight: Dan Ham, Managing for Wildlife
Dan Ham began working with the Noble Research Institute in March 2008 shortly after he purchased property in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. We helped him develop a strategy to achieve his goals of managing the property for wildlife.
How Often Should You Conduct Prescribed Burns?
There are many reasons why property owners use prescribed fire. The most common reasons are brush management, wildlife habitat management and forage improvement for livestock. Since the effects of...
Why You Should Consider Prescribed Burning Throughout the Year
For most prescribed fire practitioners in the Southern Great Plains, burns are conducted during winter and early spring (December to March). This burning season has become commonplace because most of...
It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's the Future.
On a cold, but sunny October day, nearly 100 4-H students filed into the Ardmore Convention Center for their Southeast District Leadership Conference. What would be a day filled with leadership...
Common ag practices key for pollinators, grassland birds
Tools and processes that encourage plant diversity are essential.
Proper livestock stocking rate supports operation, wildlife
Overgrazing can cause poor forage and livestock production, wildlife habitat loss, soil erosion and other problems.
Grazing for wildlife, livestock involves many factors
Grazing management and wildlife management largely address plant community management with considerations involving interconnected, dynamic systems.