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Burning as honeysuckle control

I would welcome any comments or suggestions relating to effects of burning
on honeysuckle.

I've volunteered for three years at an 11 year old government owned
restoration in south central Wisconsin, trying to control invaders, one of
which is honeysuckle.  We've cut and stump-treated the larger specimens
successfully, using a 50% Roundup solution.  For the past two seasons we've
left the smaller honeysuckles, those of about two and a half feet or so in
height, believing that the early April burns would kill most of them, but
that hasn't been the case.  This season especially, a few weeks after a
great burn which resulted in the honeysuckle crowns being well-charred, and
all of last years above ground growth burned, there is abundant resprouting
at the base.  Relatively few of these "smaller" honeysuckles were really
killed by the burn.

Is this typical of the experience of others or are the prairie gods just mad
at us?

Thanks for any comments.

Ken Siemers

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