Our prairie burn was a success. Mostly. We had some rain the last few days so that prevented the burn from getting as hot as we anticipated. It was pretty windy during the burn too, but that worked in our favor.
The first picture below is the initial ignition. We had a great crew of friends, family, and a couple volunteers from the Praire Smoke group. In the second picture you can see our burn boss, Jaime. The blue trailer to her right is the water wagon - it holds a couple hundred gallons of water to be used for refilling the water packs you'll see in the other pictures.
Here's Tim with the torch, having a good time.
The fire was a bit close to the yurt for my liking, but I kept repeating to myself "Jaime knows what she is doing, Jaime knows what she is doing" and it did all work out. No burn holes in the yurt!
The next pictures show the burn on the north-facing slope. This was some of the dryest, hottest burning of the day.
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This was the second burn of the day - down in the wetlands area.
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And these pictures just show how hot and smokey it can get!
