prairies evolved with fire.

they need that kind of a disturbance every once in a while to keep them healthy.

And when we have prevented fires from happening on a regular, routine basis, we build up an abundance of fuels.

When you have too much fuel, you'll have a more severe fire.

everyone in Colorado knows about the Marshall fire.

That was started as a grass fire in the city, natural areas.

So part of burning is to try to reduce the fuel loading and just kind of keep the grass at a low height.

And then there's also a whole slew of, ecological benefits of prescribed fire.

these native grasses, the soils, all of this will benefit from, from the fire that we're putting on the ground here today.

People have become very uncomfortable with fire.

And so, this is probably been the hardest thing for us to bring back we don't just go out and say, oh, look, there's dry grass.

Let's, let's start a fire.

There's a lot of work that goes in behind the scenes to get to this point.

The indigenous people that we're here use fire to manage these lands since time immemorial.

humans have kind of lost our relationship with fire.

it's really important to be able to provide firefighters with these training opportunities where they can actually put fire on the ground.

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