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Firefighter using a drip torch to start a burn

 

 Boulder-Fire Rescue has no prescribed burns planned for today.

 

 

Prescribed burns are usually conducted to meet the following Resource Management Objectives: 

  • Improve and maintain functional habitat for native tallgrass and wet meadow plant species, including the federally-listed Ute ladies-tresses orchid, by reducing litter, suppressing non-native cool season forbs and grasses, and reducing tree encroachment.
  • Reduce litter by 70-90% to stimulate an increase in native herbaceous cover.
  • Reduce the cover of Canada thistle by directly impacting the plants (late April or early May burn), or by removing litter and stimulating thistle growth (late March through mid-April burn) followed by prescriptive cattle grazing that targets thistle regrowth and suppresses other non-native cool season species.
  • Reduce litter to allow for minimizing herbicide application rates for common teasel treatment.
  • Create a mosaic of burned and unburned patches with 75% to 95% of the area burned.  Unburned patches can serve as refuge for small mammals, insects, and other grassland species.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:51

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