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What is up, guys? In his episode 76 of Working Class on Deercast, and we're kind of sticking with the theme for the last two weeks.

We talked with Forrest a little bit about controlled burning, talked with Lee and Austin a little bit last week about some farm management stuff lately.

When I got my newly good friend, Chris Cedars, Cedars, nailed it.

I love your last name. I got introduced to you through Perry Baton, Shout-to-Perry, Mark's Farm Manager, and I'm like, hey, man, I called him Forrest because I had a farm that I had permission to hunt that needed a controlled burn done.

It's like, I'll parry up. I'm like, hey, do you do that stuff? Because I thought, oh, Perry come out. He's like, no, but I got a guy.

That's how I got in contact with you. I just called you up, but yeah, man, we could probably figure it out.

That's really the start of the conversation. Thanks for coming and doing this, and thanks for coming to do the podcast.

Thanks for having me. What do you do as your day job? Let's start there, and then we'll get into how you got into doing what we did today.

So a little back history for me, but currently a full-time sheriff's deputy for county back home.

I started doing the fire prescribed fire stuff for land management about 10 years ago, and a volunteer fireman also for going on. This will be year 11.

Damn, thanks for your service for all this.

Thank you. So that's really kind of how I got into it. So there's a lady through the DNR back home that she burns a lot of state sites for prairies and stuff.

So they do prescribed fire burns just about every year. On most sites, if not every other year, to help control a lot of the different aspects of doing prescribed fire.

Yeah. Okay. So I kept calling that today. We're doing some videos. I kept calling it control burning control burning and Spencer's like, hey, man, it's prescribed fire because it's never 100% in control.

Right. So I always kind of, when people ask the difference between control burning and prescribed fire, I always tell them, if you've ever seen a movie back draft, I have not.

So it's an older firefighter type movie in there. They tell you that, you know, the fires are living breathing creature.

Okay. Yeah. And it feels that way. And you can't control it. I mean, you can try. You can fight it, but it's not something that you can.

Control burns a campfire. Right. Right. I would say so. Yeah. That's like your burning leaves in your ditch. That's a control burn.

It could even go as far as say that's probably a prescribed fire to because if you got grasses or something, I can get away from you.

Fire scares me. Yeah. And that's the reason why like I know I can't be the only guy out there who has permission pieces that like helps the farmer with this land and like just handle stuff for hunting permission or has their own piece or

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