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 Sunflower Bacon prescribed burn activities are anticipated
to take 2-5 days per unit to complete and include 520 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. 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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