LDWF Encourages Landowners to Use Prescribed Fire as a Tool for Effective Management

By Justin Stakes

Abbeville, LA -(Ammoland.com)- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is encouraging citizens to consider prescribed fire to enhance wildlife habitat on the landscape.

Fire is a safe and cost-effective science-based land management tool. Prescribed fire reduces the risk of wildfires by decreasing fuel loads on the ground. Used properly, prescribed fire can restore, enhance, and sustain the ecosystem health of fire-dependent systems such as open pine systems, woodlands, and prairies.

Almost all Southeastern upland systems, as well as some types of wetlands, have been …read more

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