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State and federal agencies will work together on prescribed fires around the Oahe Dam over the next couple months.
Prescribed burns are an annual land management tool.
Brian Korman is a natural resource specialist with the Army Corps of Engineers.
He says the burns provide a variety of benefits.
“We use prescribed fire to improve our wildlife areas promote better grass growth, more species diversity for the wildlife to use, and we also use it on the actual dam embankment to help reduce litter, which will help better grass growth to protect against erosion and also helps with inspections of the dam embankment.”