Prescribed Fire- WPAs

Due to a host of reasons, the natural resources and wildlife management community has not been able to apply fire to the Minnesota landscape at a rate that mimics historic fire return intervals. This has created several problems, most noticeably the encroachment of trees and brush into prairies and grasslands. This grant will dramatically increase the capacity of the USFWS to conduct prescribed fires on public hunting lands in western Minnesota. In a previous, similar grant the USFWS was able to increase the acres burned by 40% over previous years when using grant funded fire detailers.