I was looking at the big tractors and brush hogs the DEC uses for mechanical removal of msintance of fields for wildlife. As if there wasn’t a more natural tool – fire. They really should consider more controlled burns of the land, low slow burns, grass fires in the open fields during the spring months.

For too long fire has been feared, in part due to uncontrolled wildfires that burn much too hot. Then many have expressed concern with air pollution, after all if you burn a field, especially when it’s damp, your going to end up with a lot of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide in the air. But this is a natural source, unlike the increadible amounts coming out tail pipes in the cities.