Seeking prescribed burn advice

[Hayek'sPupil]

Need to do a prescribed burn on about 20-30 acres in Houston County. I've contacted the Texas Dept of Agriculture, the Houston County Agricultural Extension, the Houston County Fire Dept, and the Texas A&M Forest Service's Forester in Houston County and nobody seems to know who to contact or they dont answer the phone.

Does anyone know how to hire someone to do a prescribed burn on a piece of property?

[dclifton]

Im not help as we do our own.

I cant believe that Texas AM forest service couldnt help?

[jaspermac]

Call Texas forest association in lufkin. They will provide a list of prescribe burners in the area or go to texas a&m forest service web page and see list of vendors. I have a list of who I would use. Pm me if you need some direction

[camoclad]

They are no help in private land PB.

I'm leaning to buying a old used fire tanker and installing permanent fire breaks. I think those two things can mitigate alot of the danger.

Otherwise, I'm starting to beleive a heavy flail mower basically accomplishes the same thing as fire.

[Blackmouth]

Contact your local Texas Parks & Wildlife biologist

[Smeone]

https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/content/article.aspx?id=27345

Texas A&M Forest Service Contacts:

William “Andy” McCrady, Fuels Coordinator, 936-689-9393, wmccrady@tfs.tamu.edu

Hughes Simpson, Program Leader, 979-458-6658, hsimpson@tfs.tamu.edu

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/Home/ProductionAgriculture/PrescribedBurnProgram.aspx

For Questions, Call
Patrick Dudley, Coordinator for Agriculture Commodity Boards
and Producer Relations
(512) 787-9966
Patrick.Dudley@TexasAgriculture.gov
Prescribed.Burn@TexasAgriculture.gov

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/Home/ProductionAgriculture/PrescribedBurnProgram/TexasPrescribedBurnAssociations.aspx

https://www.texasforestry.org/programs/burn-managers-council

[Quackerbox]

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I'd like to see about our place also

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[Double R 2]

I know a guy who does a lot of work on private ranches. He has his license for herbicides as well as a license for prescribed burns. He lives in Lufkin. If you want his info, pm me.

[wytex]

They are no help in private land PB.

I'm leaning to buying a old used fire tanker and installing permanent fire breaks. I think those two things can mitigate alot of the danger.

Otherwise, I'm starting to beleive a heavy flail mower basically accomplishes the same thing as fire.

You will be surprised what fire can do beneficially.

[bgleaton]

I'm in the same boat. We had someone that came highly recommended and is very experienced but we would have to pay $6k to burn 1/3rd of our property which is only 135 acres. I'm thinking about doing some smaller burns (i.e. back fire) myself with a group of guys this February if the weather allows it and watch it closely to learn. I'm hoping we can get a lot of our fields burned which would equate to around 50 acres burned. Still trying to find the best option.

[Bayouboy]

You will be surprised what fire can do beneficially.

I never understood why more aren't done in East Tx like they do in La. and Ms.

Certainly helps.

[Dale Moser]

I wish we could burn a bunch of our lease.

[Tester]

Brent Kartye can fix you up - info below. Very good guy to work with.

https://www.habitatcan.org/local-resources/Brenton-Kartye/35317/

[SabineHunter]

The only advice I got was from the GW. "Don't let it get out of control". LOL

[Garbuster]

I was told that the reason that there's not much control burning, not a lot of people that do it and why its so high is because of the price of insurance. Not sure if it's the reason but I could definitely see that as a contributing factor