Really Really sad discovery. WARNING: GRAPHIC

[Jeremy Browning]

Recently my friend Tim had told me about prescribed burns and them hurting fauna, i dint believe him. In one day spent at a area that isn't know to have too much fauna i had found more than 25 dead snake ( i stopped counting at 25) 18 dead turtles countless dead frogs which died from the smoke of the prescribed burn likely more than 300 dead frogs and toads and many other atrocities. BTW forest fires in my area only would naturally happen once every 15 years but prescribed burns happen every year.My camera died after 14 photos but here are a few pics hope this will give u guys an idea of what im talking about:

[MarkieJ]

Damn, that sucks! I'm assuming prescribed burns are used to prevent fires in the dry season?

[Jeremy Browning]

Theyre used to "stimulate" plant growth

[Dexter]

Yeah, they are used to stimulate plant growth. They do them here all the time in Fl.

[garweft]

They are done to maintain prairie areas as well.

[RichsBallPythons]

Its done by my house every spring to help growth and keep certain populations of species down.

[Lolo76]

They do those (we call them "controlled fires") a LOT here in California, and it's a major necessity since we're in fire-country. I never thought about the animals being killed, though... how sad.

[loonunit]

We do prescribed burns in Arizona when the humidity is up to prevent uncontrolled wild fires during low humidity seasons when they're more damaging to the the trees and harder to control. I'm sure plenty of wildlife doesn't escape the fires, but I'm sure even more die during the uncontrolled multiple-thousand-acre wild fires.

[mommanessy247]

i understand the logic behind it but every time i hear it i go "huh? "
they CAUSE a big fire...to PREVENT fires...
to me there's no difference between that and intentionally spilling oil in the ocean and then saying "this will prevent future oil spills!"
i mean...really?
god those poor critters.

[eracer]

Sad, but necessary.