Fire management officials on
the North Fork John Day Ranger District are implementing a 173 acre prescribed
burn within the Meadowbrook FTJ1 burn unit, located approximately 7 miles south
from Dale, Oregon and 6 miles east of Meadowbrook Summit.
The Meadowbrook prescribed
burn is anticipated to take 1 day to complete and primarily consists of grass
and juniper with some mixed pine. The objective of the burn is to improve
foraging habitat for big game, reduce long-term wildfire risk through
reductions in existing fuel loading, reduce material that is 0-3” in diameter to
less than 9/10ths per acre, and to restore the ecological functions of a fire
adapted ecosystem to the area. Hunters and forest visitors are encouraged to
plan ahead and avoid the area during prescribed burning activities.
Additional information about
this prescribed burn is available by visiting the Umatilla National Forest’s new
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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