Open Range
by Lynn Sprowl
Title
Open Range
Artist
Lynn Sprowl
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The ranch hand looks out, across the vast pasture, as they prepare to burn the field.
The tallgrass prairie biome depends on prairie fires, a form of wildfire, for its survival and renewal. Tree seedlings and intrusive alien species without fire tolerance are eliminated by periodic fires. Such fires may either be set by humans (for example, Native Americans used fires to drive bison and improve hunting, travel, and visibility) or started naturally by lightning. Researchers' attempts to re-establish small sections of tallgrass prairie in arboretum fashion were unsuccessful until they began to use controlled burns.
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March 24th, 2015
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