Workshop Teaches Prescribed Forest Burning

By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter

MANY – Participants in a recent forestry workshop learned how to use good fire to prevent a bad fire. Participants in the prescribed burning workshop, held May 16-18, set fire to the forest floor in a 13-acre tract with a covering of pine straw and a healthy growth of a small tree called a yaupon that grows densely in wooded areas.