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Videos
Learn how prescribed fire rejuvenates the prairie grasses and wildflowers planted at the campus of Northwestern University, Illinois
Prairie grasses burning in a prescribed fire on the campus of Northwestern University,...
Images
prescribed fire
Prescribed fire in a forest understory. Such intentional and controlled burning serves...
© Bill Gabbert/Fotolia
strip ignition
Strip ignition being used to start a prescribed fire at Saguaro National Park, Arizona.
National Park Service
prescribed burn
A fire manager starting a prescribed burn in Yellowstone National Park, in the northwestern...
Bryan Harry/NPS
Podcasts
“Plants on Fire”
Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Emily Booth of Temple University...
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