The University of Central Florida successfully completed a prescribed burn Friday, July 17, near Parking Garage C.

Prescribed burns, which remove dead, decaying or low-lying plants on the forest floor, are a management technique to maintain healthy ecosystems and to prevent unplanned fires from endangering nearby areas.

One of the first UCF-led burns, in 2005, helped the university win a Campus Ecology Recognition award from the National Wildlife Federation. The award is given to universities committed to restoring wildlife habitat and slowing global warming.

For more information on the burn and UCF's prescribed fire program, click here. Click on "Burn Unit Descriptions" to see a map. The June 2 burn covered portions of areas 12 and 13.

To view a video produced by UCF TV about prescribed burns at UCF, click here.