We are fired up about burning for healthy forests!
Hard times
March 9th, 2011 Filed Under Blog
Land owners have been blessed with an opportunity to apply for an ARRA grant (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). In some ways it is a blessing. It is a way for a landowner, usually one who has not done much burning, to get assistnace with a much needed burn on their land. The devil seems to be in the details as usual. Lots o documentaion must be done. Part of the idea is to put people to work. The problem comes when you realize that the problems surronding doing a small acreage burn, say 40 acres, exceed the amount of money available. By the time you drive to the track a couple times to analyze the situation both from a burn status as well as smoke screening and contingencies, what with the price of gas and and burn fuel, there isn’t much to cover the burners time much less anything to hire help. Small tracts are a problem. Mayb ethe ARRA grant adninistrators could consider a graduated scale? You can burn a 400 acre tract for much less that a forty acre tract and come out.
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