{"id":261402,"date":"2025-10-30T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:48:08","slug":"prescribed-burn-in-montmorency-county-to-fight-invasive-species-benefit-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261402\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescribed burn in Montmorency County to fight invasive species, benefit rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will burn 75 acres in Montmorency County Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The burn is expected to start around 12 p.m. in Vienna Township. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s intended to set back woody plants and invasive species. <\/p>\n<p>The DNR also said a variety of wildlife should benefit, including elk, deer, turkey, woodcock, grouse and the threatened<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/dnr\/education\/michigan-species\/reptiles\/massasauga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prescribed burns are one way the DNR keeps lands and forests healthy. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prescribed burn by DNR (DNR)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d61a5a42-3615-4300-912b-24cab92ca283-Capture.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prescribed burn by DNR (DNR)<\/p>\n<p>Prescribed burns are conducted by highly trained DNR personnel in designated state-managed areas, in cooperation with the proper authorities and local units of government.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will be monitoring the weather and wind conditions, which could lead to last minute cancellation of the burn.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>You can get more information on the process of prescribed burns on the interactive map below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTMORENCY COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will burn 75 acres in Montmorency County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-261402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}