Burning Prairie

     On Thursday we burned the Prairie between 4 fairway and 5 tee's.  It was a little damp it took about 2.5 hours to burn.  We need to do this every other year. Burning rejuvenates the prairie by removing excess leaf litter and duff allowing more plants to flower, produce seed and grow taller.  It also increases available nutrients through indirect stimulation of microbial activity in the soil and releasing nutrients from the ash.  Burning exposes the darkened soil and allows sunlight to warm the soil quicker and extend the growing season for warm season native plants.  The fire also suppresses many weeds and non native invasive cool season grass.  Below is a video and pictures of the burn.

The grasses crackle when burning and  it gets extremely hot.

 Before 

Burning

Done