Controlled burn at PINS has its benefits

How a Controlled Burn in the Spring Can Improve Deer Hunting in the Fall

Burn Prevention & Education Programs

How does a controlled burn work?

This is the Burn Barrel. It’s the most important tool for hands-on fire behavior training. How We Use It: 🔥 See Fire Science: Watch heat and smoke movement (convection). 🔥 Practice Hoses: Use charged lines for controlled extinguishing. 🔥 Test Comm Skills: Learn to communicate clearly in loud conditions. Why It Matters: It isolates fire’s fundamentals. Mastering these basics here makes reading a full, complex fire scene safer and more intuitive later. #CALFIRE #FireTraining #BurnBarrel #FireSc

On March 11, Hamilton County Parks performed a controlled prairie burn at Strawtown Koteewi Park, the county’s largest park, which has more than 300 acres of protected and maintained native prairie. Prescribed burns are necessary for prairie management. Burns kill non-prairie and shallow-rooted invasive plant species, allowing for increased growth of native prairie plants, which have deeper roots, unaffected by the heat of the burn. Left unchecked, trees and shrubs gradually move in and “choke o

How Controlled Burns Work