This week is Prescribed Fire
Awareness Week in Florida.
Prescribed Fire Awareness Week is a time the state
uses to draw attention to the state’s practice of prescribed burning on public
forestland.
Prescribed burns are set as a way to clear
undergrowth in Florida’s
woodlands – lowering the amount of fuel there is to feed wildfires.
Besides
cutting down on hazardous ground fuels, prescribed burning also promotes
healthy forests and improves wildlife habitats.
On
average, the state issues more than 120,000 prescribed burn authorizations to
burn over two million acres each year.
In 1990, the Florida
Legislature passed the Prescribed Burning Act to recognize the importance of
prescribed fire as “…the most important tool for the management of Florida’s public
and private natural lands.
The state even has a website focusing on prescribed
fire information at www.goodfires.org.
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