BROKEN BOW—Where there’s smoke there’s fire–and vice versa. A smoke ecology hazards management workshop will be held on Thursday night (December 14) at the Tumbleweed Café in Broken Bow on east Highway 2.
Pheasants Forever Wildlife Biologist Ben Wheeler told KCNI/KBBN that recent global research has found some of the benefits that smoke offers.
Anyone who conducts prescribed burns is invited to attend the workshop and learn more about health hazards, management tactics, and ecological benefits of smoke.
“We have a workshop coming up for anybody that might be interested in using prescribed fire on their land to help rejuvenate their grassland, for forage for their livestock, to help control our invasive eastern red cedar trees out there,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler also explained that one of the goals of the workshop is to mitigate exposure to the dangers of smoke and to minimize the effect smoke can have on other people.
The Thursday night workshop will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday at the Tumbleweed. The cost to attend is $10, dinner is provided. Call Ben at 308-750-2652 to register or visit www.nebraskapf.com.
