Articles
Returning What Once Was
One quarter—or 15-million acres—of Missouri was considered a prairie prior to European settlement. To narrow the focus even further, nearly 50,000 acres, or 17 percent, of St. Louis County was covered with tall-grass prairie during that same time period.
Prescribed Burns
Today, organizations prescribe fires to maintain certain ecosystems—and much like your doctor who prescribes medicine for certain reasons and tells you how to take them—prescribed fire is used to achieve