{"id":257741,"date":"2026-04-08T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:38:08","slug":"prescribed-burns-wednesday-in-washtenaw-oakland-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257741\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescribed Burns Wednesday in Washtenaw, Oakland Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            April 8, 2026        <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;margin-bottom:0.75em\" alt=\"Prescribed Burns Wednesday in Washtenaw, Oakland Counties\" rel=\"img_src\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775662688_107_a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"articlebody\">\n            Nik Rajkovic \/ news@whmi.com<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a number of prescribed burns Wednesday across southern Michigan, including in Oakland and Washtenaw counties.<\/p>\n<p>The burns and their start times are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t1 p.m.: 30 acres in Oakland County&#8217;s Highland Township to set back invasive shrubs and stimulate native prairie plants; this is expected to benefit grasslands birds. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t5 p.m.: 9 acres in Washtenaw County&#8217;s Sylvan Township to reduce invasive weeds and stimulate planted prairie grasses for the benefit of the threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake. <\/p>\n<p>Prescribed burns are one way the Michigan Department of Natural Resources keeps lands and forests healthy. The burns are conducted by highly trained DNR personnel in designated state-managed areas during appropriate weather conditions and in cooperation with the proper authorities and local units of government.<\/p>\n<p>Public safety is a top priority during all prescribed burns, which sometimes are canceled at the last minute due to careful monitoring of weather and wind conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the DNR\u2019s fire management activity, visit the link below.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8, 2026 Nik Rajkovic \/ news@whmi.com Michigan Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a number of prescribed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,3844],"class_list":["post-257741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-whmi-radio-93-5-livingston-michigan-news-weather-traffic-sports-classic-rock-howell-brighton-fenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}