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West Florida Fire and Nature Festival highlights role of prescribed burns

| Hansen Hasenberg

The University of West Florida is known for its trails as well as its academics.

Much of the trails traverse through longleaf pine forests. The plant, which once spread over 90 million acres across America, is famously fire-resistant and relies on fires to clear out dead underbrush to make room for its seedlings.

Vernon Compton of Longleaf Alliance helps get a prescribed burn started.

 

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