#prescribed fire

[fatchance]

Today's patch of sky, with smoke from a prescribed fire in Ramsey Canyon.

[cosmicanarchist]

Tumblr is being mean to me and not letting me share photos, but I was on my first prescribed fire today! I'm so excited to keep doing them!!!

Edit: I managed to post photos check reblogs!

[joy-haver]

@cosmicanarchist

[fraise-impossible]

blacklining, 3/9/25

[drifting-cloud-in-nature]

[mixotrophics]

Pyrophytes,

plants of fire. plants that Need fire (pyrophiles). disturbance is natural and good, as such so is fire (so are we) (it is about moderation and variation). destroyed patches make a mosaic of complex diversity.

eucalyptus. Shaggy peeling bark + (toxic) oils = burns burns burns. explodes. but only fire can destroy the resin on their cones, so this is purposeful, they need it.

gorse. Very flammable. hot and dry (summer or fire) crisps and twists their pods to burst and spread their seeds.

Cyrtanthus ventricosus fire lily. Blooms right after fire, so it is the only place for pollinators to go, standing alone bright red and flourishing against stark white grey black ash,

South African aloes with dead succulent leaves to wear as fire-armor.

longleaf pine that keep their branches safe out of fire’s reach,

and more. And more! Many, actually. Fire can protect these plants from invasives. Fire-maintained habitats of pyrophile plants defend themselves from invasives that get burned. stop the fires and the invasives can come in and wipe out plants therefore biomes therefore So Much, many of which are endangered (longleaf pine savanna at only 3% of its historical range...........)

[tokoriart]

✶ Commission for Maxieski ✶

[amelia-j217]

A quick doodle of the prescribe burn we conducted at Wormsloe State Park. Helping to maintain our disappearing grasslands.