Woodson County Prescribed Burn Plan Training

Juiy, 30, 2025

5:00 PM

Woodson county Rural Fire Department

809 West Mary

Yates Center, KS

Register by July 23, 2025 at https://www.kglc.org/calendar-of-events.cfm?t=events&i=6096

No cost.

Ready to take control of your grasslands? Learn the how and why of prescribed fire with local experts. We’ll cover burn safety, planning and managing invasive species.

Topics

• History of Fire
• Prescribed Burn Safety
• Burn Prescriptions (identifying the reason for prescribed fire use)
• Addressing rangeland landscape threats through proper burn prescriptions
• Research findings on local threats like woody encroachment, sericea lespedeza, and Old World Bluestems
• How to write a prescribed burn plan

Local emergency management personnel will also be invited to share information relative to surrounding counties and the use of prescribed burning in their respective counties.

Event sponsored by Wilson and Woodson County Conservation Districts, Evergy, and the Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition

For specific questions you can call Pamela Walker at 620-378-2866 or David Kraft at 620-437-7613.