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  • Prescribed burns benefit base

    Tinker Air Force Base has been on fire over the last week. Literally. But, it’s not all smoke and mirrors. There’s a reason behind the burning. For the last several years, Tinker’s Natural Resources Conservation Office has collaborated with the Air Force Wildland Fire Center and Tinker Fire

  • Tinker prescribed burn coming up

    For the first time since 2010, prescribed burning of 25 areas, totaling 100 acres, on Tinker Air Force Base is planned between late January and April. It is a collaborative effort between the Tinker AFB Natural Resources Conservation Office, Fire Department and the Air Force Wildland Fire

  • Tinker natural resources supports monarch population

     When Carrie Oehlerich, the lead office assistant for Aramark, a food service at Tinker Air Force Base, found a caterpillar in her garden four years ago, she took to the internet, just to make sure it was not one to be concerned about.She soon found that it was harmless — just a monarch butterfly

  • Tinker plants 50 native trees for Arbor Day

    Mother Nature couldn’t have sent a better sign of approval to the 15 or so volunteers gathered recently to plant new trees at Tinker Air Force Base.Before a redbud sapling was even unloaded from the bed of a pickup, a lone bumblebee was already dancing in the air around its tiny pink

  • Money-saving restoration leans toward the wild side

    Tinker’s ongoing native habitat restoration program recently got a boost with the planting of 1,200 wildflowers on the base’s west side. Natural Resources Manager John Krupovage said the new additions are the second phase of restoration work in flood-prone empty fields where old base housing had

  • Be aware of fire ants found on base

    The base’s Pest Management shop has begun eradicating fire ant colonies that have been discovered on Tinker Air Force Base for the first time. Exterminators recently began eradication treatments around a significant number of mostly small- to medium-sized nests, or mounds, found on the grounds near

  • CE removing invasive ground vegetation

    An invasive plant control contractor began spraying herbicides June 23 to eradicate existing ground-level vegetation along 50 acres on both sides of Crutcho Creek between Arnold Street and the Urban Greenway entrance including the entire area where old military family houses were demolished."The

  • CE removes invasive ground vegetation

    An invasive plant control contractor began spraying herbicides June 23, to eradicate existing ground-level vegetation along 50 acres on both sides of Crutcho Creek between Arnold Street and the Urban Greenway entrance including the entire area where old military family houses were demolished."The

  • Tinker named Tree City USA for 22nd year

    For the past 22 years, Tinker Air Force Base has been recognized as a Tree City USA.Part of the requirements of being a Tree City USA is holding an Arbor Day celebration. Col. Christopher Azzano, 72nd Air Base Wing and Tinker installation commander, proclaimed March 27 as Arbor Day at Tinker. To