Not sure the underbrush has ever been controlled on this piece of ground. Hopefully creat spots for turkeys and deer to forage through with fresh greenery.

They will like you for it.

Depends on what underbrush species that would benefit from a fire.

Seven years ago a neighbor set fire to some woodland and it crossed over onto my land. It took out some prime habitat and food source on about 20 acres. The fire killed off hazelnut brush, wild grapevines, various growth stages of wild apple and crabapple trees, poplar, hackberry and cedar trees. The only trees that survived were White Oak and Shagbark Hickory, though many young trees were stunted.

Only an acre or 2 total burned of a 40 acre lot. Figure I will burn a few different areas each year. Leave some unburned altogether.

Only 1 maybe 2 cedars burned up and none of the ones I laid over that are still living.

Definitely don't want all of the brush gone.

There are three things land owners don't do enough of, Burn---Burn---Burn. Rio7

Good job

A lot of what would be buck brush, gooseberry and some of the multi floral rose didn't burn. Mainly leaves and a few smaller, dead, dry limbs sticks.

find any old sheds in the burn?

Not yet. Have looked the 2 previous weekends.

Still pretty thick and wasn't paying attention today. Hopefully get out and look again next weekend. Kid at work really been finding them in the last 2 weeks.

You can see how thick the brush is. Didn't even burn the larger cedars when it would go under them. Still a lot of moisture from a little rain and snow on Thursday.

About 30' behind me is where the front door to the new house is going to be. Clear out about half of those hickory trees and get some sort of plot going there. Be some good front porch viewing happening then.

Once you get that place built, can I come sit on said porch in my underwear, drink your beer and watch porn?

You sure can.

Have to bring your own porn though, nobody gets to watch my midget bondage stuff.

Fire is a Very efficient management tool, Especially how you are doing it 10guagema.

Good enough for me.

I come prepared.

See you then!

Father in law burns his every year. He has a 20 acre field that is in a wildlife habitat program. A biologist put his plan together and burn offs were part of the plan. In fact, they are burning today.

We burned some 20yr old pine plantation about 2 weeks back. The pines don’t sweat it at all, but the browse should be great going forward.

We try to burn about 3500 acres in a checker board pattern every winter, depending on the weather,

Very good Habitat management tool. Rio7

I think this ended up being more of a leaf burn. Should help with browse though. We will see in just a few weeks once things start to green up.

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Great Stuff Brian !!

We are very fortunate that our property owner loves to burn. He burns different areas every year. He burned around 300 acres this year.