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KY Night Fire 014
The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky has no fear when it comes to fire.
Orchestrated or Prescribed Fire is used to quickly eradicate invasive and non-native plants that overtake native plants that our wild animals need for food and shelter.
Privet, Euonymus, and honeysuckle shrubs look pretty in a yard, but they are highly invasive, and birds are naturally attracted to their beautiful berries. Birds eat the berries, fly away, excrete the seeds, and the seeds sprout.
A single average sized shrub may produce 1000 berries which have the potential to sprout in nature , overtaking and killing the native plants around them.
Along the highways in northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, the native landscape that once flourished with thousands of different plants below the tree canopies now are comprised entirely of honeysuckle shrubs. The rolling hills look beautiful to us, but to wildlife, it is a virtual desert with no food, medicine, or places to live.
Please watch what you grow.
KY Night Fire 014
The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky has no fear when it comes to fire.
Orchestrated or Prescribed Fire is used to quickly eradicate invasive and non-native plants that overtake native plants that our wild animals need for food and shelter.
Privet, Euonymus, and honeysuckle shrubs look pretty in a yard, but they are highly invasive, and birds are naturally attracted to their beautiful berries. Birds eat the berries, fly away, excrete the seeds, and the seeds sprout.
A single average sized shrub may produce 1000 berries which have the potential to sprout in nature , overtaking and killing the native plants around them.
Along the highways in northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, the native landscape that once flourished with thousands of different plants below the tree canopies now are comprised entirely of honeysuckle shrubs. The rolling hills look beautiful to us, but to wildlife, it is a virtual desert with no food, medicine, or places to live.
Please watch what you grow.