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Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Darryn Warner, 88th Civil Engineer Group Natural Resources Program manager, points out to firefighters the area they will be burning March 2, 2025, on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Huffman Prairie is the largest tract of native tall-grass prairie in the state of Ohio and its ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
A test fire is started to check conditions prior to lighting a large, prescribed burn March 2, 2025, on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Huffman Prairie is the largest tract of native tall-grass prairie in the state of Ohio and its ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Steve Holmes, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module lead, briefs his team and members of the Wright-Patterson Fire Department March 2, 2025, prior to the start of a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Huffman Prairie’s ecosystem benefits from fire and the 88th Civil Engineer Group’s Natural Resources Program attempts a prescribed burn every few years. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Firefighters prepare drip torches as they set up to do a prescribed burn March 2, 2025, at Huffman Prairie, across the fence line from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module joined with the Wright-Patterson Fire Department and the 88th Civil Engineering Group’s Natural Resources Program to safely burn 50 acres of prairie grass land. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Capt. Blake Emmert, Wright-Patterson Fire Department, uses a drip torch to start a prescribed fire March 2, 2025, at Huffman Prairie just outside the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, fence line. Huffman Prairie’s ecosystem benefits from fire and the 88th Civil Engineering Group’s Natural Resources Program attempts a prescribed burn every few years. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Fifty acres of tall prairie grass goes up in flames March 2, 2025, during a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module joined with the Wright-Patterson Fire Department and the 88th Civil Engineer Group’s Natural Resources Program to safely burn the tract of land whose ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
A fireman uses water to keep a prescribed burn away form a nature trail sign, March 2, 2025, at Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Huffman Prairie is the site of the world’s first flying field where the Wright Brothers developed the first practical airplane. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Steve Holmes, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module lead, uses a drip torch March 2, 2025, to help spread a prescribed burn at Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Huffman Prairie, the site where the Wright Brothers developed the first practical airplane, is currently the largest tract of native tall-grass prairie in the state of Ohio and its ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Fifty acres of tall prairie grass goes up in flames March 2, 2025, during a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In addition to being the location where the Wright Brothers learned how to control flight, Huffman Prairie is the largest native tall-grass prairie in the state of Ohio. Fire helps its ecosystem by hindering invasive species and woody plants. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Capt. Blake Emmert, Wright-Patterson Fire Department, uses a drip torch to start a prescribed fire March 2, 2025, at Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Other firefighters followed behind him with a water hose to stop the fire from going in the wrong direction and endangering the replica of the Wright Brothers’ 1905 hanger that is on the site. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
A firefighter stamps out burning embers March 2, 2025, at the border of a prescribed burn at Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Huffman Prairie, the site where the Wright Brothers developed the first practical airplane, is currently the largest tract of native tall-grass prairie in the state of Ohio and its ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Fifty acres of tall prairie grass goes up in flames March 2, 2025, during a prescribed burn on Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module joined with the Wright-Patterson Fire Department and the 88th Civil Engineer Group’s Natural Resources Program to safely burn the tract of land whose ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Where Flight Took Off, Fire Now Soars: Huffman Prairie's Prescribed Burn
Firefighter Brayden Peake, left, and Assistant Chief Bryan Weeks, both with the Wright-Patterson Fire Department, patrol the border of a 50-acre prescribed burn, March 3, 2025, at Huffman Prairie, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Members of the Air Force Wildland Fire Branch Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakeland Wildland Support Module joined with the Wright-Patterson Fire Department and the 88th Civil Engineer Group Natural Resources Program office to safely burn the tract of land whose ecosystem benefits from fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Wright-Patt, Fairborn students mark Arbor Day
Col. Dustin Richards, 88th Air Base Wing and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base commander, welcomes the Fairborn High School Environmental Club to the Wright Brothers Memorial on April 26, 2024, for the Arbor Day tree-planting celebration. The 88th Civil Engineer Group teamed with students to add three more trees to the memorial’s arboretum. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Wright-Patt, Fairborn students mark Arbor Day
Chelsea McKenzie (right) and Alexis Knick, Fairborn High School Environmental Club co-adviser, break ground to plant a ginkgo tree at the Wright Brothers Memorial on April 26, 2024, as part of the Arbor Day observation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This is the seventh year the club has joined with the 88th Civil Engineer Group’s Environmental Branch for an Arbor Day tree-planting celebration, adding more than 100 trees and bushes to the arboretum in that time. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Wright-Patt, Fairborn students mark Arbor Day
Fairborn High School Environmental Club members plant a ginkgo tree April 26, 2024, at the Wright Brothers Memorial as part of the Arbor Day celebration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Three trees—the ginkgo, a poplar and pawpaw —were added to the arboretum with help from the students. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Wright Brothers Memorial earns arboretum accreditation
Danielle Trevino, 88th Civil Engineer Group biological scientist, works with volunteers to clear brush from in front of a sign at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center at the Wright Brothers Memorial on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2023. The project was part of a tree festival and volunteer workday held by the group’s environmental branch to celebrate the memorial as an accredited arboretum. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Wright Brothers Memorial earns arboretum accreditation
Steven Vincent, 88th Civil Engineer Group director, talks with students from the Miami Valley Career Technical Center about the Wright Brothers Memorial on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and the trees planted that earned it accreditation as an arboretum on Oct. 12, 2023. The students received a tour of the many types of trees planted around the memorial and how they benefit humans. (U.S. Air Force photos by R.J. Oriez)
Wright Brothers Memorial earns arboretum accreditation
Angie Berghuis, National Park Service park ranger, gives students from the Miami Valley Career Technical Center a tour of the Wright Brothers Memorial arboretum on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2023. After hearing of the many uses for the various types of trees, the student planted three additional ones. (U.S. Air Force photos by R.J. Oriez)
Wright Brothers Memorial earns arboretum accreditation
Angie Berghuis, National Park Service park ranger, talks to students from the Miami Valley Career Technical Center about an acorn she is holding and the role it plays in the circle of life during a tour of the Wright Brothers Memorial Arboretum on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2023. The students were given a tour as part of a tree festival and volunteer workday held by the 88th Civil Engineer Group Environmental Branch to celebrate the memorial as an accredited arboretum. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)