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["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

>      It's hard for me to see how this is a problem.  Grass is short lived and
> replentishes itself quickly so aside from speeding up the recycling process
> I can't see that burning grass does much of anything.  Anybody know why they
> burn the grass so often?  Does it have something to do with weed control?

You mean on praries and the like? Primarily because many species of 
plant depend on periodic fires for part of their reproductive cycle. 
Some species of pine, for example, don't open their cones and 
disperse seeds except right after a fire. The mania for fighting any 
and every fire over the past several decades has done some damage to 
ecosystems that evolved dependent on fires.

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