Last Sunday we had very favorable weather and a great crew and got almost all of our remaining burns finished.
See this post for the earlier burn.
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Burn crew getting ready to start the big savanna burn |
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GIS map of the Apr 6 burns. The area shown in green was burned first and the gray last. |
The savanna burn was especially complicated because the fuel was so lush. With a south wind, we backburned as much as possible. (See photo below) Even with backburns, flame heights occasionally flared up.
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The fire moving down through unit 11D savanna. Note how lush the fuel is. |
There was quite a bit of mop-up, and a few large trees that had hollow trunks caught on fire and fell. Although we love each individual tree, we realize that in a fire-controlled oak savanna some older trees will fall.
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After the burn, unit 10, the large bur oak savanna on the ridge top. The lighter colored area in the distance is the top of the south-facing slope that was burned the week before. |
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After the burn, large white oaks on the lower savanna slope. |
After a late lunch we moved to the east end of the Conservancy and burned the East Basin and Ridge Prairies and the associated oak woods, another 11 acres.
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