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The advisory is scheduled until 10 a.m. Wednesday, due to prescribed burning in the eastern Kansas area. The burning is scheduled each spring in the open grasslands of the Flint Hills.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department issued an Air Quality Advisory on Tuesday due to smoke from controlled burning in the Flint Hills region of Kansas and Oklahoma.

Local health department officials are cautioning residents to be aware of the air quality with burning season just getting underway in Kansas, which is later than usual.

Many credit Jim Hoy, 95, as popularizing the Flint Hills among Kansans and the world. Josh Hoy, left, and his father Jim Hoy on horses in the Flint Hills in 2016. The men died a day apart in February.

Prescribed burning also reduces the risk of wildfires and is effective in managing rangeland resources. Smoke from the burns can influence the air quality of downwind areas.

The method was controversial in the Flint Hills at first. “He pioneered a lot of new methods in terms of buying cattle, stocking pastures, feeding cattle, burning the pastures or not burning.

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