Have I mentioned that I am loving my job? It affords me the ability to exercise my talents.
This gentleman was helping monitor a prescribed burn on the Otoe Missouri tribal complex water treatment pond. In case you think otherwise, that is smoke blowing across the water. Later in the day I shot video of the prescribed burn that I was actually there to shoot. Since the Otoe police chief and his crew were going to help on the other fire too I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to use the still camera.
I was really excited when I got this shot. Most of the others in this sequence weren't framed right or were a little too blurry to turn out this nice. Prescribed fire, which begins with a fire plan, if you hold to the best practices model you will be able to increase the health of your vegetation and not be at great risk of having the fire run wild. Prescribed fire is good for controlling certain vegetative diseases, eastern red cedar, and makes it less likely that your property will suffer damage in the event of a wild fire. Prescribed burns reduce fuel loads and increase the population of native grasses that are usually choked out by commercial grasses and agricultural crops. These burns also return valuable nutrients to the ground. I think the best thing I heard all day was one of the helpers as he was starting a back fire with a drip torch he said, "I get to start a fire on someone else's property in front of the police chief and the fire chief and I am not going to get into trouble. This is the best job ever." Of course I think he is wrong, I think I have the best job ever.
I was really excited when I got this shot. Most of the others in this sequence weren't framed right or were a little too blurry to turn out this nice. Prescribed fire, which begins with a fire plan, if you hold to the best practices model you will be able to increase the health of your vegetation and not be at great risk of having the fire run wild. Prescribed fire is good for controlling certain vegetative diseases, eastern red cedar, and makes it less likely that your property will suffer damage in the event of a wild fire. Prescribed burns reduce fuel loads and increase the population of native grasses that are usually choked out by commercial grasses and agricultural crops. These burns also return valuable nutrients to the ground. I think the best thing I heard all day was one of the helpers as he was starting a back fire with a drip torch he said, "I get to start a fire on someone else's property in front of the police chief and the fire chief and I am not going to get into trouble. This is the best job ever." Of course I think he is wrong, I think I have the best job ever.
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