Tag Archives: Controlled Burns

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. That was Steven Stewart of the Indiana Forest Alliance. We’ll hear more from I.F.A. later in the program on how both wildfires and controlled burns pose Air Quality hazards. And we’ll learn about I.F.A’s new campaign for a new National Park as an Old Growth Forest Preserve. …

The Hoosier National Forest saw a record year for prescribed fires in 2019. I asked myself what that means to local residents and about the environment’s current condition. To find some answers I took a journey to the headquarters of Hoosier National Forest in Bedford, Indiana. There I talked about the fires with their Fuel Specialist Jeremy Kolaks. Kolaks said …