In partnership with the Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation, Blue Mountain Elk Initiative and Oregon Department of
Forestry, fire management officials on the Heppner Ranger District are
implementing a large-scale prescribed natural fuel burn today.
The Lovlett prescribed burn
is anticipated to take 4-5 days to complete and includes 500 acres of grass,
brush, timber litter and timber understory south of Sunflower Flat near Lovlett
Creek. The objective of the burn is to improve foraging habitat for big game,
reduce long-term wildfire risk through reductions in existing fuel loading, and
to restore the ecological functions of a fire adapted ecosystem to the area.
Additional information about
this prescribed burn is available by visiting the Umatilla National Forest’s
prescribed fire interactive map. This map displays burning activities and is
available at https://tinyurl.com/y8b433th.
The interactive map allows the user to zoom in on certain areas and click on a
burn unit for more information (such as acreage, status, etc). When burning
operations begin the interactive map will be updated to display which burn
units are actively burning.
Maps of the proposed
prescribed burns are also located on InciWeb at http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5808/.
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