Burning a native grass field to Improve Production

Here is a 3 year old growing field for production of native grass seed at Fourth Corner Nurseries near Bellingham, Washington. The plant is Festuca roemeri or a type of native bunchgrass found in prairie habitats of western Washington, USA. In time vegetation chokes the grass plants and a spring burning is practiced here as in this demonstration. Total burn was completed in about 1 hour and rains will wash in the nutrients tonight.

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Science & Technology

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• Burning
• Grass
• Propagation
• 'native
• plants'
• 'seed
• production'
• Washington
• 'Fourth
• Corner
• Nurseries'
• Festuca
• bunchgrass
• prairie
• roemeri
• 'fire
• ecology'
• seed

[willowrichrd]

Well drained sandy loam here. Nice video but not in context of burning grass seed field.