Danvers slough WMA burned
A prescribed burn of the 2,700-acre Danvers Slough May 11 was necessary to improve the health of the slough’s ecosystem and was long overdue, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said.
It was impossible to miss the large clouds of billowing white and black smoke rising into the sky from the Danvers Slough and Wildlife Management Area last Monday.
For a while, the dense smoke caused warning signs to be posted along Swift County Highway 20 on the north side the WMA. The smell of the burning drifted northwest into Morris and beyond.
Nearly 2,800 acres of grasslands, cattails, and slough grasses were going up in flames by a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) prescribed burn of the area. It was a destructive process, but one that the DNR says leads to a necessary cleansing.
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