with Landowners Cindy Martin & Ray Audas By: Kevin Muraira On an early February morning, my phone buzzed with a text from Ray Audas, one of Bayou Land Conservancy’s landowners. Ray manages Cindy’s Redbud Preserve, named after his wife Cindy Martin, and had good news to share: conditions were ideal for a prescribed burn that morning. Prescribed, or controlled, burning is a land management practice with a history stretching back millennia. Indigenous peoples and land managers