Smoking Monday in Oakland Township Oakland Township has conducted two prescribed burns so far this spring. Residents may have spotted smoke in the area on Monday due to the prairie restoration plan that called for 28-acres to be burned. Seventeen acres were burned in the old agricultural fields in Charles Illsley Park and eleven acres were burned at the Bear Creek Nature Park. Plantwise, LLC out of Ann Arbor completed the burns. Plantwise has conducted more than 500 burns since 1998 across … [Read more...]