Fall prescribed burning planned for the Prairie City Ranger District
By Logan Bagett on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
JOHN DAY, PRAIRIE CITY, & HINES – (Press Release from the Malheur National Forest)
Conditions across the Malheur National Forest continue to improve and become more favorable to complete prescribed burn operations.
Prairie City Ranger District continues to monitor units for potential burning, of which a portion will be completed as conditions allow. These Units include Elk 16FB and Elk 16C, located on both sides of Forest Service Road 16 from Elk Creek campground to Little Crane campground.
Each prescribed burn is designed to accomplish specific objectives related to increasing forest health. Prescribed burns will be conducted only under appropriate conditions to ensure firefighter and public safety. Appropriate conditions include correct temperatures, wind, fuel moisture, and smoke weather forecast. When these criteria are met, firefighters implement, monitor, and patrol the burn to ensure the forest health and public safety goals including air quality.
Prescribed fire information is available to the public on a tri-forest online map. The map is labeled and color-coded to show each burn unit’s status: planned, active, or completed. Additionally, forest users can view other features including current and past-year burn units, National Forest boundaries and State wildlife management boundaries.
Daily updates can be found at https://www.facebook.com/MalheurNationalForest.
For more information on the Malheur National Forest, please visit us at www.fs.usda.gov/malheur.
