
Learn to Burn workshop March 29
A proscribed burning workshop is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Boy Scouts of America Camp Edgewood in...


Drones can be fire-starters
Technology has aided forestry for years, especially when performing prescribed burning to keep fuels on forest floors from building up to...


Prescribed fire for agriculture workshop set
The LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry will hold a workshop about prescribed fire at noon Tuesday, Oct. 18...


Fire for birds, bees and other wildlife
What does the small, non-industrial, timberland owner do for timberland management? I addressed some of these issues in a previous...


Burning forest was controversial at first
The history of fire in Southern forests is a long and vexing one. Setting fire to the woods has been a common practice in the South....


When fire is essential
Fire good. Not only is that a line from Frankenstein’s monster, portrayed by Boris Karloff in the 1931 movie, but it’s also the opinion...