Re: it started on private land
Posted by
cypresstx on 3/2/2024, 4:17 am
I don't recall them needing to pay for a permit, but this was back in the day before computers & I was a little kid - a written document which you better have in hand if officials stopped to check while you were burning. I think local fire dept's were also given names/addresses for permits issued, so they could be prepared, just in case, now that is all automated & mapped online. It was also temporary & very weather dependant - if you had a permit but the winds got above a certain level, you still shouldn't burn. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry/fire/questions.html
I remember some neighbors helping & then my brothers would help them, in kind. Sometimes they would burn a little on the perimiter/fence line or use a sickle to cut tall grasses & small brush that grew up around the fences first, before burning the field. That way it kept the fence posts from getting damaged.
They also had to move livestock from the area or temporarily keep them in different barns. They can spook from the smell of smoke even. I remember it being hard work for them & not a 1-day task. |
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