Fire management officials on
the Walla Walla Ranger District are implementing a 150 acre prescribed burn
within the Alder Creek burn unit, located approximately 22 miles North of Elgin,
Oregon.
The Alder Creek prescribed
burn is anticipated to take 1 day to complete and primarily consists of grass, brush
and scattered timber. 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. 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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