Highland Creek Prescribed Fire

Size: 1500 acres

Date(s)
Block A: May 5, 2002
Block B: October 19, 2002

Primary Goals
1. Reduce non-native species and increase native perennial grass and forb species.
2. Achieve greater than 50% mortality in ponderosa pine regeneration (<2.5 cm DBH).
3. Reduce dead and down (1, 10, and 100 hr.) fuels.
4. Accomplish a "patchy" burn within drainages where hardwoods occur.
5. Reduce number of ponderosa pines up-slope from hardwood stands.

Prescribed Fire Monitoring Reports:
Block A
Block B

Location of the Highland Creek prescribed fire.

Ignition team on Block A.

Smoke column rises above Block A.

Fire backing across the prairie.

Fire burns through a draw in Block B.

Burning through a pocket of ponderosa pine on the edge of a prairie dog town.

A tree torches out in Block B.

Moonrise over Block B.