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spring. "Burning in these conditions of increased fire risk requires experience and methods that most South Dakota landowners currently do not have, so caution should be exercised," he said.
• In southern states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, Bauman said the impacts of the cedar invasion are immense. "Ranchers have lost large percentages of pastures, sometimes whole ranches, to the invasion. In these states ranchers have been forced to form community burn teams to combat the problem," he said. "We will likely be forced to employ the same tactics here in South Dakota in the not-to-distant future."
• Presentations on cedar control from the Annual Society for Range Management meeting are available at http://blogs.missouristate.edu/gpfirescience/?p=881. To learn more, visit iGrow.org or contact Bauman at Peter.Bauman@sdstate.edu.
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