How and Why I Use Prescribed Fire to Maintain My Property
"I've had lots of questions on why I use prescribed burning to maintain my property. Fire is an amazing tool to help control unwanted vegetation such as cedar trees."
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Me and Burn Barrel Country 🛢 🔥
Me and Burn Barrel Country 🛢 🔥
From time to time, I correspond and chat with the author of the burn barrel country blog, which celebrates the rural freedom and often stinky practice of burning your household trash in a burn barrel. He says he doesn’t update his blog much anymore, because any time he posts something, one of the greenies is out there flaming him and threatening to report him as a polluter on his Oklahoma acreage.
We got chatting over the topic of freedom to do what you want on your own land, kind of came to a consensus that if you not harming your neighbors then so be it. Nobody is going to care if you burn things, if your not smoking out your neighbors, leaving them in a toxic haze, or starting wildfires. It’s like having a plinking in your backyard, riding four wheelers, raising smelly pigs or having horny buck goats — doesn’t really matter if you have enough land. Nobody is going to report you or even care, if you aren’t causing a nuisance on what you do in your back 40.
Pennsylvania Game Commission Burns
Humboldt County’s Prescribed Burn Association
The Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association is comprised of landowners, nonprofits, volunteer firefighters and other community members who work together to carry out prescribed burns on private land.
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Starting a Fire Safely with Gasoline
"Some advice on how to safely start a fire with gasoline, reducing risk of injury to yourself and others."
Hillbilly Incense
They call it hillbilly incense.
The putrid, toxic plastic smell of the rural burn barrel. The trash fire that consumes most of the waste of the rural household and the farm, allowing them to only haul their unburnable waste to the landfill, trash pit or recycling center once a year or so.
It’s become rare in New York except for the most outlying places due to the burn ban – most people now haul their trash to the transfer station, get a big old dumpster or get weekly service. Some trash gets recycled but in many cases recycling is fairly impractical in rural areas.
But I smelled some burning while I was driving up to camp and thought it might be my brakes dragging as they’ve been a bit noisy from the glaze I got on them the other day. But it was just another trash fire. Yuck.
NPR
Wildfires in the Western U.S. continue to blaze, with much of the activity centered in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
In Oregon and Washington, 28 large fires are burning across 1.5 million acres. But the Bureau of Land Management noted that growth has slowed for a number of the major fires. The large Beachie Creek Fire east of Salem, Ore., had recorded no new growth in the previous day.