i agree to a point....my coworker was mowing one of the firelines the other day and ran over a nest, breaking most of the eggs, he set the remaining ones next to the nest, but something got them that night, he did go and check on it the next morning.....he was devastated....so right now it's road work for me....i try to stay away from mowing, but with 36,000 it's hard , we have a dry season and we have have to get it done or it wont be done in places for another year...mainly the marsh, but theres fawns out there as well, all sorts of babies...i was cutting the marsh last year(removing myrtle trees)and i saw this lil itty bitty thing dart out of the palm i just passed, it was a newborn fawn....it was only by the grace of God i didnt kill it....i try to get all of the firelines done before the nesting starts, so most of those are good to go,it's the ones like my where my co worker was that didnt get done because they were too wet, but now that they are dry, they have to be done before we lose our chance...we were hoping the nesting was about done, we know that theres still nests out there, but the not as many as there was earlier in the season...but.....yep here comes the but, lol.....with burning, we have a saying,we may lose a few to help them all...we know that we'll lose some critters and believe me, we burn in a way that they have escape routes, but the lil ones and slower/weaker ones might be lost, but to improve their habitat and protect them fromwildfires, we have too....if we didnt and wildfire comes through, they're toast, so the preventative maintance so to speak has to be done....try to get it done early is all you can do really, but protecting your property and all of it's critters has to be a priority...