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If you were in the area you could see smoke from miles away! Yesterday fire crews from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ran a prescribed burn on Roznos Meadow on the southeastern corner of Devil’s Lake State Park. We’ve got the video for you of course! You can check it out in high resolution on our YouTube channel. It will be fun to watch the black landscape turn to bright green over the next few weeks!

Why Burn?

DNR staff mananging the fire.

Fire was always an important part of Wisconsin’s environment. For thousands of years, before European settlers arrived, wildfires occurred naturally through lightning strikes or were set by Native Americans to create healthy landscapes to attract game animals and to open areas for settlements. In fact, these fires were so integral to the Wisconsin landscape, that many of our native plants and animals are dependent on the fires for their very existence!

From the time Wisconsin was “settled”, the fires pretty much stopped. It was years before we realized their importance to the landscape. Today we use what we now call “prescribed” or “controlled” burns to maintain or recover healthy & diverse landscapes. These days, the rising smoke of prescribed burns has become a normal part of the spring and fall seasons in our part of Wisconsin.

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