Last week I had the opportunity to participate in Fire Appreciation Day at the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (blog post coming soon on that!) organized by Dr. Dale Rollins. What a fantastic way to celebrate and learn more about fire effects! You will find summaries and abstracts of the day’s events under the tab Resources. I was blown away by the numerous stakeholders we were able to bring together, County Judges, Commercial and Insured Prescribed Burn Managers, producers, Prescribed Burn Associations, Texas Tech University, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Texas Parks and Wildlife, USDA-NRCS, County Extension Agents, National Grazing Lands Coalition, and many others! As a result of these efforts, Gary Joiner from the Texas Farm Bureau covered the event and wrote a tremendous story on prescribed burning (which you find here). It’s days like these and stories like these that help tip the fire scale a little bit closer to proactive prescribed burning! #EveryDayisABurnDay #HappinessIsSmokeOntheHorizon