prescribed fire requires igniting grasslands/forests in a designed burn
Source: National Park Service, Wildland firefighter uses drip torch at Manassas National Battlefield Park
prescribed fire requires igniting grasslands/forests in a designed burn
Source: National Park Service, Wildland firefighter uses drip torch at Manassas National Battlefield Park
Humans have been using wildfire to transport the landscape for 85,000 years, long before the development of agriculture. Ancient hunters in Africa around Lake Malawi preferred fire-tolerant open woodlands, rather than a forest with a closed canopy. Humans altered the natural seasonal rhythm of wildfire to create a mixture of plants that offered greater opportunity to hunt game, creating an artificial "pyrodiversity" of species.1
dry grass is converted into ash behind the flame front, but roots can survive
Source: National Park Service, Prescribed fire at Manassas National Battlefield Park
small fires recycle nutrients and reduce fuel loads
Source: National Park Service, Prescribed fire burns woody material
prescribed fire is used to deter tree growth and maintain open grasslands that preserve historic views at Manassas Battlefield
Source: National Park Service, Fire burns vegetation at Manassas National Battlefield Park
areas to be burned in a prescribed fire are isolated by firebreaks, with a team of firefighters to prevent escape to areas not planned to be burned
Source: National Park Service, Manassas prescribed fire November 20, 2019
firebreaks are established before prescribed fires are ignited
Source: National Park Service, Manassas prescribed fire November 20, 2019
prescribed fire is used as a cost-effective tool for managing habitat
Source: Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, How DWR Uses Fire to Restore the Wild: Good Fire