Curb‘s Marion Elbow and Lauren Pettis spoke with Hannah Spaul, the director of Land Management at the Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, to learn about prescribed burns and their effect on Wisconsin’s landscape.

Cover Photo: Prescribed fire blazes across Wisconsin, helping to keep landscapes healthy. Photo courtesy of Hannah Spaul, The Nature Conservancy Wisconsin.

Tile Photo: The Nature Conservancy prescribed burn at the Barneveld Prairie in Iowa County. Photo by Brooke Frederickson, The Nature Conservancy Wisconsin.