The Time is Now
Channel: USDA NRCS South Dakota
Date: 2021-07-07

If you haven’t viewed our composite video (Eastern Red Cedar: A Burning Issue), we recommend you do so before diving into this one. The Composite video can be found at the top of this playlist!



In this video, we visit with Rod Voss (NRCS), Sean Kelly (SDSU) and Ranchers Rich Grim (Gregory Co., SD) and Doug Feltman (Brule Co., SD) who take a more detailed look at the concept of the fire return interval and why it is always more economical and less dangerous to burn trees when they are smaller rather than when they get larger and turn into thick forests.  The video ends with rancher Doug Feltman calling ranchers to action to take a “calculated risk and do everything to mitigate the danger of it [the fire] getting away and then then to go ahead and do it”.



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