LSU Forestry Students Learn Proper Burn Techniques

By Johnny Morgan, LSU AgCenter

Understanding how to extinguish a fire is a needed lesson for many, but for some LSU students, the proper way to start a fire was the lesson in a recent class. LSU AgCenter forestry specialist Niels de Hoop took 20 students in his prescribed burning class to the LSU AgCenter Bob R. Jones-Idlewild Research Station on Jan. 25 to learn all aspects of controlled burning of pine forests.