Green Meadows West Prescribed Fire 2025

Our first ever fall prescribed burn will be begin November 12. Post cards went out last week and began arriving in mailboxes on Friday. If the weather changes, we’ll post an update here about the delay and provide a new start date once we have one identified.

The goals of the fall burn:

1) Burn up seedheads of grass and late blooming flowers like goldenrod to promote earlier season flowers and sedges.

2) Set back shrub and tree material. Since shrubs aren't fully dormant yet, burning them now will allow us to control them better.

3) Burning now will allow us to identify invasive species for treatment in spring 2026. These include birds-foot trefoil, crown vetch, cool-season grass, and Canada thistle.

We'll get back to spring burns in the future, but to promote diversity and decrease manual maintenance, we've identified this as the proper route to take. It's also good to change up management. Historically, prairies would have been set on fire by Native Americans during summer, autumn, and winter, and not just during the spring.

We'll have road signs up and trail closure signs posted as well.

2025 GMW Prescribed Burn Map