Fire management
officials on the Pomeroy Ranger District are implementing a large-scale
prescribed natural fuel burn today.
The Dark Canyon
prescribed burn is anticipated to take 2-5 days to complete and includes 1,750
acres of grass, brush, timber litter and timber understory in the Lick Creek
Game Management Hunting Unit. 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. #KnowBeforeYouGo
Hunters and forest visitors are
encouraged to plan ahead and avoid the area during prescribed burning
activities.
Interested in
more details on this prescribed burn? The Umatilla National Forest has
developed a prescribed fire interactive map displaying planned burning
activities, which 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. Check it out!
Maps of the
proposed prescribed burns are also located on InciWeb at http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5808/.
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