RSS feed on news topics is provided by the District http://floridaswater.com Copyright 2013, SJRWMD The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 250-acre prescribed burn today at the Sand Lakes Conservation Area in northern Indian River County. The purpose of today's burn is fuel reduction. [May 16, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-064 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 150-acre prescribed fire today at the Bayard Conservation Area in Clay County. The purpose of the burn is to remove bahia thatch and promote the warm season bunch grasses in the fields while applying fire to the swamp edge on the perimeter. [May 14, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-063 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 45-acre prescribed burn today at the Hal Scott Regional Preserve and Park in Orange County. Today's burn will take place on the north end of the property. The burn is for restoration and wildfire control. [May 10, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-062 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 113-acre prescribed fire today at the Black Creek Ravines Conservation Area in Clay County. The purpose of the burn is to improve groundcover and reduce fuels along an urban interface boundary, or the area where human structures and forests meet. [May 10, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-061 News Release The stakeholder advisory committee of the North Florida Regional Water Supply Partnership will meet at 1 p.m. on May 20 at Florida Gateway College, 149 S.E. College Place, Lake City. [May 9, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-060 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 125-acre prescribed fire of pine flatwoods on the Hatchet Creek tract of the Newnans Lake Conservation Area, north of State Road 26 in Alachua County. The purpose of today's burn is fuel reduction and ecological management. [May 8, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-059 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 100-acre prescribed fire today at the Heart Island Conservation Area in Volusia County, south of State Road 40 along Flat Road. The purpose of today's burn is ecological management. [May 8, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-058 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 195-acre prescribed fire of pine flatwoods at the Dunns Creek Conservation Area in Putnam County. The purpose of today's burn is fuel reduction and ecological management. [May 8, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-057 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 76-acre prescribed fire today at the Heart Island Conservation Area in Volusia County, south of Hwy. 40 and east of Hwy. 17. The purpose of today's burn is fire control and baseline creation. [May 7, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-056 News Release The St. Johns River Water Management District is conducting a 176-acre prescribed fire today at the Eustis Sand Mine tract of the Lake Norris Conservation Area in Lake County. The purpose of today's burn is to reduce fuels in the pine flatwoods and for ecological purposes. [May 7, 2013] http://webapub.sjrwmd.com/agws10/news_release/ViewNews.aspx?nrd=nr13-055 News Release