It all is done because fire restores minerals and nutrients to the prairie soil, renewing and refreshing it to stimulate a ...

COURTESY U.S. ARMY Bryson Kamakura, firefighter, Army Wildland Fire, ignites invasive Guinea grass with a drip torch during the Army’s 2016 prescribed burn. The firefighters burn invasive guinea grass ...

These are used for both backfires and to set prescribed fires, a kind of controlled burning that reduces the amount of fuel in an area. Backfires are lit by dragging the drip torch to a place on ...

As Agler looked on, firefighters proceeded along the roadway, using drip torches, flares and leaf blowers ... project designed to renew a shaded fuel break established in the mostly mixed conifer ...

A US Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in ...

The cache delivered includes fire tools such as drip torches, backpack sprayers ... by burning up materials in the area that ...