Control of Eastern Red Cedar Prescribed Fire Program

Listen to Doug Whisenhunt discuss burn plan writing at the Great Plains Fire Summit 2022.

Burn plan writing workshop - YouTube

Why burn? Prescribed fire is a safe, effective, and economical way to enhance native rangelands. 

NGLC burn coordinator, Doug Whisenhunt, and landowners from the Central Platte Rangeland Alliance (CPRA) are hard at work this spring in the battle against eastern redcedar. The CPRA kicked off the 2022 prescribed burn season in early March with an extremely effective eastern redcedar reclamation burn. Covering 2,500 acres, the effort removed 85% of invasive eastern redcedar on the unit, a remarkably successful outcome.