Fire on the prairie: Curative use of fire at the Forest Preserves of Cook County, bonus remotest spot

Steve Smith, Danny O’Rourke, and Chris Carpenter, resource technicians with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, work the leading edge of a prescribed burn at Cap Sauers Holding Nature Preserve. | Dale Bowman

Tagging along and learning much on a prescribed burn with the Forest Preserves of Cook County; plus the bonus of going to the most remote spot in Cook Cook.

A mouse climbed down a black oak, then scurried across the ashes, 30 feet behind burning browned oak leaves in a prescribed...