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Published: 2007-04-10 18:53:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1291; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 28
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Prescribed burning helps control invasive species and get rid of dead wood and plant matter to make room for new native plants.Related content
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This is one of the most powerful pictures I have seen on here in a while.
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Cool. I've heard about these. I heard the huge Red Wood trees don't get new babies anymore unless theres a controlled fire(on tv, at least).
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Lots of plants need fire to help germinate. It could very well be true.
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Uh, germinate translation please?
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Reminds me of the San DIego wildfires >.<
Gorgeous.
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The colour and the fire and the smoke is brill.
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thanks! Glad you like it.
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for those who live in countries that every summer are decimated by fires, this picture is quite disturbing, but very well done and with and excellent theme
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thanks I appreciate that! Does your country employ controlled burning at any level?
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i don't think so! although everyone thinks the fires are set out by mischievous hand, they probably are planned because burnt wood sells cheap. i don't think we promote burning at any level. only to burn old stuff and the like. keep up the good work
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Crazyness awesome - and what a wonderful thing to do for the environment
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Great! I think it is the best on Orange Competition by naturphotographer
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Thanks so much! Glad to hear you say that!!
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Lovely picture 
I've always been confused about controlled burning and its point, but your explanation there clears it up a little. Do you only burn when it's dead then?
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yes like in early spring or late fall. When things are too green they don't burn well, and make lots of smoke. But the roots are still alive after a fire if it is a native plant, since prairie plants have deep roots they will just grow again. Also the ash from the dead plants returns nutrients to the soil. But if it is a weed, it will die in the fire because the roots are shallow and won't survive, which is good because then the native plants will fill their places.
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By gum, how cunning.
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lol! I haven't heard that in a while! What are you refering to, natural processes?
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How do you mean? If you mean 'how cunning', then i meant the whole process of the burning to save etc. was cunning.
If you meant 'by gum' then i was just using it as an expression, no reference to trees heh heh. But a co-incidence anyhow.
If you meant neither, than none of that probably made much sense...
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it's tough to control fire, but i know what it means to deal with invasives 
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yes by doing burning we are facilitating a natural process that would get rid of invasives. But because area is surrounded by homes we have to do it in a controlled fasion instead of letting the fire come when it wants to. Fake nature is not as good as real nature, but the end result is a better habitat.
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you're very welcome.
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Really nice, excellent exposure and depth, suggestion wise---make it somewhat a lil larger, like 800px
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yeah, I have a larger file on my other computer. I will definatley do that. Thank you!
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i can only hear that poor tree screaming in agony ... he he nice shot
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Actually it was dead!!! So only its corpse was screaming in agony.
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Look's like clouds instead of smoke. Great idea and composition.
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I didn't know that there were such burnings as these! O_O
AWESOME PHOTO!! > <
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Thanks! Yes in this part of the country there are some.
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I've worked on fire crews who practiced controlling brush fires during a prescribed burn. Nice series.
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Awesome! So you know when you look at this that it was way too much smoke, heh heh...
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