[CPEO-MEF] RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Camp Edwards (MA) prescribed burns

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military base has torched earth policy

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times MA)
November 22, 2008

CAMP EDWARDS - Nearly 50 acres of underbrush was burned yesterday, 
clearing a blackened path for box turtles and foot soldiers.

Since 2000, prescribed burns - fires set under controlled conditions - 
have become an important part of the mission at the Massachusetts 
Military Reservation, said Michael Ciaranca, deputy director of the 
Massachusetts National Guard's Environmental & Readiness Center.

Yesterday, as flames ripped through leaves and bramble in a military 
training area, burn boss Joel Carlson of Northeast Forest & Fire 
Management, said the weather was cooperating.

"It's almost perfect conditions," Carlson said. "We're right on the edge 
of it being too wet. We're happy about that because we don't want to 
kill many trees in this burn, just the shrubbery."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081122/NEWS/811220317/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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