with fuel loads,” he says. “We have been working closely with the Texas Wildlife Association on this issue too, so it reaches a broader group of landowners.” This past year provided good


opportunities for controlled burns in Evans’ part of the state. “It was a wonderful spring and summer, and we grew a tremendous amount of fuel,” he says. “There were some fi res and some high fi re dangers in July and August due to the dry conditions, but then we started getting moisture again in Sep- tember.” That mitigated the risk from


wildfi res this past fall and produced enough forage to help ranchers continue to rebuild herds depleted by the last 5 years of drought. “I don’t use fi re here nearly as much as I would like


Rooter Brite, TSCRA director


to,” concedes Rooter Brite, who runs cow-calf pairs and yearlings on his ranch in Bowie. Brite is also a director of TSCRA. “There is a lot of justifi cation for


using fi re but because of how powerful an issue it is, there is also a lot of resistance to using it as often as you need to.” The issues revolve around having too much fuel,


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