Fire management officials on
the North Fork John Day Ranger District are implementing a 950-acre prescribed
burn within the Meadowbrook FTO burn unit, located approximately 1 mile
southeast from Dale, Oregon and 6 miles east of Meadowbrook Summit.
The Meadowbrook prescribed
burn is anticipated to take 2-3 days to complete and primarily consists of
grass and juniper with 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, to restore the ecological functions of a
fire adapted ecosystem to the area, and to kill germinated invasive annual
grasses. 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
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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