KU Field Station's Spring Burning Begins With Prairie Acre on Campus
March 12, 2018
March 12, 2018
LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
Take a country drive in Kansas on an early spring evening, and you may witness the otherworldly site of prairie fires. Controlled, or prescribed burns, mimic the means by which natural forces--and later Native Americans--maintained the prairie ecosystem.
Over the next few days, research staff of the Kansas Biological Survey and the KU Field Station are conducting prescribed burns in severa . . .
Take a country drive in Kansas on an early spring evening, and you may witness the otherworldly site of prairie fires. Controlled, or prescribed burns, mimic the means by which natural forces--and later Native Americans--maintained the prairie ecosystem.
Over the next few days, research staff of the Kansas Biological Survey and the KU Field Station are conducting prescribed burns in severa . . .