Meeting: Plans for Ganondagan controlled burn to be discussed Thursday in Victor

The Ganondagan State Historic Site announced plans to have a prescribed burn of the Grassland Management Area.

About 37 acres will be burned in a single day occurring sometime between February and June 11.

A public meeting will be held concerning the prescribed burn at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 15, at the Seneca Art and Culture Center on Boughton Hill Road in Victor.

The plans were approved by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Environmental Stewardship and Planning Bureau.

"All considerations have been made to prioritize public safety, as public safety is always of the utmost importance for OPRHP," a statement said.

Prescribed burns are an ideal management strategy, the statement said.

The burn objectives are to, "enhance the interpretive value of the site by restoring the biodiversity of plant and wildlife species to what was present during the Seneca's historic period of occupation," restore grassland communities, and "remove thatch layer to improve habitat for fire-adapted plant species and grassland birds."

MEFINNERTY@GANNETT.COM

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