The pic was taken in early March on a controled burn in our 20 yr pines that was thinned for chip and saw during the summer last year.
I try to burn everything before hatches and turkey season. March Here maybe earlier in your neck of the woods.
Some of the burning practices i do is to burn only half of the boarders on the ag fields. I am in the cp-33 program and have switch grass and other natural grasses growing. About a 40 ft boarder on all fields ditch banks and roads. some are wider than that depending on the type of habitat.
in the woods i try to burn as much as posible near the pines that are less than 8 yrs old (they have allot of grass still in them) in the large stands of pines i burn half on a yearly rotation to encourage new grass/weed growth and leave cover in the trees that are not burned at the same time. around the river we have allot of swamp land and of corse it will not burn.we spray arsenal in parts to keep things under control
we really don't have a problem with wild fires here. every so often a fire will start due to a cigerete out the window on a main road. we typicallydisc beside the road to keep it from going into the woods. going back over it a few times during the summer to fall.
on all of our disc fire breaks we replant them in millet, milo or sorgum.
can't do nothing with the fire-plow breaks they are like a big ditch.