Prescribed Fire – Scenic Rivers Farm & Forest Consulting LLC

Prescribed Fire can be used in the Ozarks and all across the south and central hardwoods region to naturaly influence plant mix and arangement in a way that meets your goals for your property, whether it be to increase or improve wildlife habitat, increase or improve forest regeneration, or improve grasslands for livestock.

Here we’ve conducted a prescribed burn for a landowner that is motivated and excited about managing his property for wildlife. Working with landowners that are passionate about management and witnessing them experience the results and sharing in that excitement is one of the best parts of what we do.

Post burn picture the landowner sent me this past week. He went from leaf litter to an increase in green herbaceous vegetation benefitting deer, turkey, and other wildlife.

Results from woodland burn spring 2018 (May 28, 2018)

Among many, there are 3 major atmospheric factors that influence fire behavior on a proposed prescribed fire.

Relative Humidity
Temperature
Wind

These 3 primary factors interact with each other at different rates influencing the ability of fuel on the ground to burn, depending on it’s type, size, and arrangement.

Couple these things with geographic factors such as slope (how steep the ground is), and aspect (which direction the slope is facing) and you start to build a recipe for how fire will behave on any given day.

This leads to one of the few things a burner can do to influence fire behavior to gain the best results. A good burner combines the knowledge of all influencing factors and applies the appropriate firing technique to best achieve the results desired from the burn.

Firing technique is applying the fire to the ground in such a way that the fire moves with or against the conditions that influence its behavior. Fire behavior with be different burning downhill and against the wind than burning uphill with the wind.

See how I use a backing fire technique coupled with the weather, fuel, and topography to achieve my objective with the burn.

Testimonials

Scenic Rivers Farm and Forest has been invaluable to me in getting my property to a point where wildlife cannot resist it. I initially reached out to them for assistance in improving deer habitat, but quickly realized the improvements assisted all wildlife, including wildlife I never had before such as quail, rabbits, and song birds. From recommendations on timber stand improvements to controlled burns, Mike and his team are top notch. I cannot say enough about how much I rely upon their reco… Read more

Eric Krauska

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