HOUSTON — Smoke was billowing from the Memorial Park area on Wednesday, which may have had people wondering what’s going on.
The Houston Arboretum and Nature Center and the Houston Fire Department are conducting a prescribed burn in the woodland habitat on the southeast corner of the Arboretum. They have done them in the past:
The controlled fire began around 10 a.m. and is expected to be over by 4 p.m. They said the burn was dependent on the weather, but apparently, the conditions made it possible to move forward…