It sometimes it takes a fire to make a prairie grow.
A controlled burn in the Willard Rose Prairie took out the thatch that was inhibiting growth and now wild flowers and wild grasses are in bloom, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
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"Pretty much everything we expected to happen, happened," said Ryan Colliton, stewardship field director at the Nature Center. "When we burned off the layer of duff, we increased the wildflower bloom and our grasses went for the sky."
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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
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