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When you start a fire or fire in general has been on the prairie forever that's what kept
the prairie as an ecosystem really extended throughout history with lightning storms.
When you do prescribed burns it maintains the prairie and native grass as an ecosystem.
Another key aspect the prescribed fires are good for is reinvigorating the native grasses
and forbs. Forbes are flowering plants, both grasses and forbs are critical to pheasants
in particular. You have the grasses for the nesting cover and the forbs the flowering
plants are the food for the insects. When the pheasant chicks hatch out of the eggs
those young chicks feed almost entirely on insects and without those flowers to sustain
those insects those young pheasants don't have anything to eat. So you add everything
up together and you've got nesting cover as a result of this prescribed fire which reinvigorates
that grass land so those birds can come back in the spring and put down productive nests.
You've got wetlands and cattail slews out here, which helps birds, get through tough
winters with heavy snow and in between you have food plots to provide them a food source.
You have a grocery store next to the bedroom you have habitat management maximized and
the birds are going to do well.