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Re: burn safety

A note to Carmen and others:

Best not to "rest on your laurels" as far as the safety of your burn 
with only two people goes. The greenness of your field and the good 
rainfall in your area were helpful. Future burns under more volatile 
(drier, windier) conditions might well be tended by more than two 
people, and with adequate water accessible to all parts of the burn 
unit. Wide, clean fire breaks are also a good precaution. Maybe you 
know all this, but I just wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that 
prescribed burning is always so easy as was described. And all it 
takes its one getting away onto a neighbor's land to really put a 
crinp in your burn program.

Also, you can count this as a qualified third vote against 
tidying up. However, if the unburned patches have a lot of weeds or 
woody invasion, burning them separately or mowing them might be a 
good idea.

James C. Trager, Ph. D.
Shaw Arboretum
P.O. Box 38
Gray Summit MO 63039
PH# 636-451-3512
FAX 636-451-5583
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