Fort McCoy prescribed burn team holds their first prescribed burn of 2024 [Image 7 of 19]

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

02.29.2024

Photo by Christopher Jones 

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Members of the Fort McCoy prescribed burn team oversee a prescribed burn Feb. 29, 2024, along the railroad tracks on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The post prescribed burn team includes personnel with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department; Directorate of Public Works (DPW) Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch; Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security; and the Colorado State University Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, under contract with the post. Prescribed burns also improve wildlife habitat, control invasive plant species, restore and maintain native plant communities, and reduce wildfire potential. Prescribed burns benefit the environment many ways and are one of the tools that can be used on a large scale to improve wild habitat. Natural resources management officials say prescribed burns help set back invasive species, and they burn up their seed banks. Burns also give native species an opportunity to compete against some of the non-native species, as many native species depend on fire to help stimulate them and set back non-native species. (U.S. Army Photo by Christopher Jones, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)

• Date Taken: 02.29.2024
• Date Posted: 03.11.2024 16:36
• Photo ID: 8281663
• VIRIN: 240229-A-SE727-3654
• Resolution: 1313x2150
• Size: 581 KB
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US