Taking Up the Torch.

ON THE RIGHT SPRING morning you might see Liza Grotelueschen walk the edge of a blackened grassland, stamping out any lingering embers. Grotelueschen is a member of the Loess Canyons Rangeland Alliance (LCRA), a cooperative burn association made up of 75 landowners who share time and equipment to save their disappearing grasslands. Grotelueschen and her neighbors began carefully restoring fire to the landscape after seeing the march of woody species displace prairie plants that feed wildlife and livestock alike. [Extracted from the article]