Nature Journaling: A Prescribed Burn at Doak Field

Sometimes when you're out hiking, you come across something dramatic, like State Park workers restoring an overgrown field with a prescribed burn.  

We arrived at the field just in time to see this planned burn begin to remove overgrown vegetation, filling the sky with smoke, and consuming the dried grasses with roaring flames.

In just minutes, the area was cleared.

Now the land is reset and ready for grasses to replace the brambles and woody plants that had grown there.

During the excitement, we found an out-of-the-way spot, and I wrote a quick description to record the day's story.

And of course, a sketch is worth a thousand words.

I hope you get a chance to tell a story in your nature journal, complete with drawings!

Happy Creating!

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