More studies need to be conducted on the long term effects of a prescribed burn. Also, the public s awareness of prescribed fire needs to be raised. Until man realizes that fire shaped most of the forests that we see today, we will let our forest ecosystems slowly dwindle away. The fires were started by human activity. The fires have been burning for a week now and have been contained in the fire lines.
Dry weather is to blame for some of the spread of the fires.
Some rain has fallen aiding firefighters who are extinguishing the blaze. No information could be found to see if there had been any major fires in the past years. We do not know if prescribed burning could have prevented these fires from occurring. Also, no information could be found on prescribed fire practices.