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Resident urges Bloomington to suspend prescribed burns around city lakes
Summary
At public comment, John Woods told the council that prescribed burns at White Oak Lake and Tipton Park destroyed shoreline habitat and saturated nearby homes with smoke, and asked the city to designate small shoreline areas as wildlife sanctuaries or relocate burns.
John Woods spoke during the public-comment period at the March 16 Bloomington City Council meeting, asking the council to suspend scheduled prescribed burns on small shoreline areas near White Oak Lake and Tipton Park. Woods said the burns last year 'turned the rushes around the shoreline of White Oak Lake... to charcoal,' destroyed nesting habitat and killed wildlife that 'could not escape the fires.' He said smoke saturated nearby homes and suggested the city designate those shoreline slivers as wildlife sanctuary or 'burn somewhere else.'
The clerk confirmed Woods had submitted an email and said the message would be forwarded to council and that two other emailed public comments were found and will be provided. Council did not debate the comment during the meeting; staff did not announce a follow-up action at the time.
