The South Milwaukee School District is planning a prescribed burn for the prairie grass around its high school and middle school campuses later this month.
Applied Ecological Services will do the burn, weather permitting, March 28-April 1.
Check out the school district letter here.
And here is more information on the schools’ prairie, and images from the previous burn (including a few shown in this post). This is a story about the benefits of prescribed burns.
I called Applied Ecological Services and said this burn is not a good idea , the phone number was in the letter, There was a environmental report/study done to purchase the football field done by Arcadias. It reads similar to the 1986 Oak Creek watershed report ,However; in it has some heavy testing done of samples from the area. I think, I a am the only one who read it. Maybe, Mr. Hahn of the South Eastern Wisconsin area planning commission could review it. I feel he would agree with me.
Yeah I don’t like this idea either
Then again I don’t really care for the
Natural look.
Maybe I Stop cutting my Grass
This summer, who knows maybe I’ll
Like it 🤔
I sure hope there is a strong southerly wind that day. If the school would have just put in regular lanscape that doesnt look like crap more than half the year, this wouldn’t be necessary.