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The recent rain has not dampened the spirits of researchers from
Oklahoma State Universityâ€™s Division of Agricultural Sciences
and Natural Resources or their mission to promote prescribed
burning in Oklahoma. A new video, The Effects of Fire, VT-9999,
was recently produced to highlight the benefits of prescribed
burning and provide information for landowners with different
land management objectives. Fire is nothing new to the state as
throughout its history, the landscape had been burned by natural
causes and American Indians, resulting in a diverse plant
community. â€śWhen you start using prescribed fire on the
landscape, youâ€™ll see that cattle and wildlife diets are much
broader than you typically would imagine,â€ť said Dwayne Elmore,
OSU Cooperative Extension wildlife specialist. â€śFire really
changes what plants animals can consume and makes a lot more
plants available to wildlife and cattle.â€ť Fire will burn off
unwanted species from t