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Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews Apr 30, 2021 6:00 AM The US Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with the US Forest Service, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks and local volunteer fire departments, plan to conduct prescribed burns on Corps property around Oahe Dam in the coming weeks. Pending favorable weather conditions, the controlled grassland burns will be conducted on several restoration sites. These burns are intended to help protect against wildfires by reducing fuel load and promoting growth of native grass and wildflower species for the benefit of wildlife. Several areas on the dam embank...

1:37 State and federal agencies will work together on prescribed fires around the Oahe Dam over the next couple months.  Prescribed burns are an annual  land management tool.    Brian Korman is a natural resource specialist with the Army Corps of Engineers.  He says the burns provide a variety of benefits.  “We use prescribed fire to improve our wildlife areas promote better grass growth, more species diversity for the wildlife to use, and we also use it on the actual dam embankment to help reduce litter, which will help better grass growth to protect against erosion and also helps w...