Prairie burns resume

DOE has given permission to resume the burning of prairie at Fermilab. Today, Wednesday, area 5 and 6 (see map) will be burned.
Fire can be nature's way of keeping ecological peace. Although it might seem an indiscriminate weapon, fire is the prairie's best defense against invasive plant species, which might otherwise overrun the native prairie ecosystem.
Ecologists have managed the nascent Fermilab prairie with fire for nearly a quarter-century.

Link to "The Unburned Prairie", FermiNews story, May 18, 2001

Link to map (pdf file) of the Fire Management Areas