GILLESPIE
COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT #220
Gillespie County, Texas
Gillespie
Prescribed Burn Association
Previous Classes
and Training
Kerr Co. Prescribed Burning Chapter invited GPBA
members to attend a meeting/training session at Kerr Wildlife Management Area
(WMA) on July 23, 2007. About 12 to 14 GPBA members attended. We learned
about the Management Area’s use of prescribed fire, which began in
1979. You can learn more about their
prescribed burning experiences at Kerr
WMA: Management Program.
The annual membership meeting was held
December 7, 2006. Keith Blair, of
Red Buffalo LLC, presented a brief program about rate of fire spread. Membership lists were distributed, along
with a call list for notifying authorities about your planned prescribed
burns.
GPBA hosted a Prescribed Burn School on
October 16 to 20, 2006, at the Gillespie Co. Farm Bureau in
Fredericksburg, instructed by Keith Blair, Red Buffalo LLC. Twenty people attended the class. Some of
the topics covered: Fire behavior, Planning a burn, and Field
techniques. The group analyzed
prescribed burns in the Mason area.
A burn training class held August 9 and 11, 2006
was taught by Charles Anderson, Allen Ersch, and Tom
Hammer. Members learned why, when, and how to burn
safely.
Tom Hammer
explains the burn plan form during class.
The August 2006 class included a PowerPoint
presentation.
Class in August 2005 included a hands-on
prescribed burn. Lead instructors were Charles Anderson, who is with the
USDA NRCS San Angelo office, and Dr. Butch Taylor, manager of Texas A&M
Experiment Station at Sonora, TX.
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