A look at prescribed burns in Florida, Oklahoma, and Virgina

Because it is still prescribed burning season in parts of the United States, or it was prescribed burning season a couple of months ago, I wanted to find some nice videos where officials are describing the prescribed burns that they are doing in their corner of the country. With the help of my friends at the B10 NJ Wildland Fire Page who post several weekly wildfire videos on their fire videos of the week page, I found three short videos to share with you. These videos are from Florida, Oklahoma and Virginia. Please note that what is described in each video is specific to the prescribed burn done in an ecosystem on a specific piece of land. While the land and conditions are likely to be different in your part of the world, I hope that you will get an idea about the planning that goes into prescribed burns, the ecological importance of the particular prescribed burn and how the prescribed burn is done. Enjoy.

Florida

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Oklahoma

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Virginia

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