Bellefontaine firefighters and a volunteer from the Tri-Valley Fire Department burned 30 acres of grassland and an additional seven acres of woods at Myeerah Nature Preserve on Sunday afternoon.
ABOVE: Jeremy Keller, front, an auxiliary firefighter with the Bellefontaine Fire Department, and firefighter Ben Kennedy tend a prairie fire during a controlled burn Sunday afternoon at the Myeerah Nature Preserve. (EXAMINER PHOTOS | REUBEN MEES)
The prescribed burns are part of an annual rotation intended to help control invasive species such as the autumn olives and native blackberry bushes that can squeeze out other vegetation, Jeremy Keller, a member of the Bellefontaine Fire Department’s auxiliary unit and a trained wildland firefighter, explained prior to the burn.
The crew began at the 10-acre “Savannah” prairie, located northeast of the main lake along Township Road 127 and worked their way south through the nearly 12- acre “Samoa” prairie in the center of the property before lighting an eight-acre section of the “Do-Si-Do” prairie south of the troop house.
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