Tag: prescribed burn
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10 prescribed pile burns planned for southeast Colorado to ignite over 500 acres
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has planned prescribed pile burns at 10 locations from December to April depending on weather and fuel moisture conditions, according to a news release by the agency on Wednesday. The total acreage of the burns is around 576 acres, mostly occurring across two locations managed by…
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341 acres prescribed to burn in the Blanca Wetlands outside Alamosa
The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled 341 acres of the Blanca Wetlands for prescribed burns from November to March, according to a news release by the agency Monday. The acreage, approximately 11 miles northeast of Alamosa, will be treated across two units to improve nesting habitats and migratory waterfowl. Fire treatments will be completed…
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460-acre prescribed fire in El Paso County to ignite Monday
The U.S. Forest Service will conduct a 460-acre prescribed fire in the Pikes Peak Ranger District on Monday, according to a post on social media by the agency’s local page. The fire is planned directly west of Rampart Reservoir and Forest Service Road 300 in El Paso County and will last through Wednesday depending on…
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Residents in Woodland Park area may see smoke from controlled pile burns
Residents in Woodland Park, Divide and Florissant in Teller and Park counties may see smoke as the South Park Ranger District conducts prescribed pile burns Thursday. The Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands posted on X from the United States Forest Service account saying they are conducting this prescribed burn operation…
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Residents in Woodland Park may see smoke from a controlled pile burn Tuesday
Residents in Woodland Park in Teller County near Forest Service Road 307 and north of Rampart Reservoir on Schubarth Trail may see smoke as the Pikes Peak Ranger District conducts prescribed pile burns. This is for the West Schubarth prescribed burn operation, according to a post on X from the United States Forest Service account.…