Rancher Starting a Controlled Burn
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Rancher Starting a Controlled Burn
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Kansas Rancher Starting a Controlled Burn" by Catherine Sherman.
A rancher on horseback starts a controlled burn by dragging a fiery tire across the prairie in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
The tallgrass prairie survives in areas unsuited to plowing, such as this section of the rocky hill country of the Flint Hills, which run north to south through east-central Kansas. Once vast, tallgrass prairie has shrunk to only one to four percent of its former size in North America.
Ranchers replicate natural fires when they burn the prairie every few years to destroy tree seedlings and alien plant species, which preserves the prairie as a grassland. The tallgrass prairie biome depends on prairie fires, a form of wildfire, for its survival and renewal. Such fires may either be set by humans (for example, Native Americans used fires to drive bison and improve hunting, travel, and visibility) or started naturally by lightning.
"Patron's Choice" Award Winner in Visions of the Flint Hills in 2015, Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City, Missouri.
Featured in "Arti Gras" Art Show, Leawood, Kansas, February 2016.
Featured in "Art at the Center's National Juried Exhibition," Overland Park, Kansas, April 1-June 12, 2016.
Third Place in "FAA Contest - True Cowboy," March 2015.
Featured in "Beauty" group (03/31/2015); "Images That Excite You" group (04/06/2015); "Premium FAA Artists" group (04/08/2015); "Midwest America Photography" group (09/07/2015); "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State" group (03/16/2016); "1 Weekly - ALL Stars" group (03/20/2016); "ABC Group - J is for Job" (09/25/2017); "Camera Art" group (09/23/2019)
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March 22nd, 2015
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Comments (18)
Sharon Popek
Congratulations on your first place win in the SMOKE BREAK contest sponsored by the Weekly Photography Challenge!
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit!
Luther Fine Art
CONGRATULATIONS!! Your impressive artwork has been Featured by the - ABC Group - Be Sure to archive it in the Feature thread LF
Judy Vincent
Congratulations on your third place win in the Kansas Photography Only contest, 3/9/17!
Connie Handscomb
I was initially attracted by the great 'sky', Catherine .... & then I realized it is smoke; a great capture of a working rancher {& the smoke sky is terrific} :)))
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Amy Steeples
What an adventure! Would love to know more about how you arrived here at the right time! l/f
Catherine Sherman replied:
Thanks, Amy! We were on a field trip for the burn. All of the action happens very quickly.
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