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Burning protects rare plant species(con't)
“I’m sure there’s already grass growing up through the black,” Dobbyn said.
Dobbyn says the park was reopened to the public on the same day as the fire after the fire was out. Wigle says various conditions are needed to conduct a burn such as a certain per cent of humidity and a south-southwest wind. Dobbyn says there was an accidental fire in the same area last year over Easter weekend. Meanwhile the City of Windsor conducts burns in the same Ojibway Prairie Complex in west end Windsor. This year the city burned 15 hectares in Black Oak Heritage Park. Two years ago there was a burn at a different area in the same park. The city in recent years has also burned in the Spring Garden natural area also on the west side. “We do a lot more burns,” than the province, city naturalist Paul Pratt said. Pratt said burning is “absolutely essential” to preserve “hundreds” of rare plant species found nowhere else in Canada. WindsorOntarioNews.com
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