Fire management
officials on the Heppner Ranger District are implementing a prescribed natural
fuel burn today, which is one of two units planned this week.
The Sun Bacon
prescribed burn activities are anticipated to take 2-5 days per unit to
complete and include 425 acres of grass, brush, and timber located
approximately 20 miles south of Heppner and seven miles east of the Morrow
County OHV park. The objective of the burns are 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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