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Southwest District BLM Prescribed Fire

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Colorado 
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News ReleaseBLM Southwest District Office, ColoradoMedia Contact: Deana Harms 970-240-5335February 26, 2024
If conditions allow the BLM Tres Rios Field Office plans to initiate prescribed pile burning in the West Dolores Rim project area on BLM-managed lands located approximately 10 miles southeast of Dove Creek, CO on January 7th and 8th, 2024. The piles contain large logging slash that were created from previous mechanical treatments to reduce hazardous fuels. Firefighters plan to burn two to three piles per a day and will monitor them after completion to ensure public safety. 
Prescribed fires planned on Carpenter Ridge and West Dolores Rim
Firefighters had a very successful day on the West Dolores Rim Prescribed Burn. The conditions allowed them to treat 340 acres and complete Units 37A and 30, along with black lining the north end of 37B. Low severity burning is used to clean-up pine needle cast and mountain brush leaf litter. Firefighters will continue to burn the next two days to finish Units 37B, 23, and 24 if conditions are good. Smoke may be visible east of Egnar, CO. 
News ReleaseSouthwest District Office, Colorado FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 24, 2023 Contact: Deana Harms, Public Information Officer, 970-501-5665  
Recent precipitation and favorable conditions created an opportunity for firefighters to prescribed burn 5 acres of piles on the BLM Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area on Dec. 13, 2023. The tamarisk piles burned down, but light smoke might be visible for a couple of days as interior vegetation smolders. Burn unit is located 4 miles east of Delta, Colorado.  
December 12, 2022                                                                                                                 
Yesterday was a beautiful day with great snow cover and blue skies to pile burn on the Baldy Pine Unit on the BLM Southwest District, Gunnison Field Office BLM-administered lands. The crew prescribe burned 28 piles, accomplishing 280 acres of reduced hazardous vegetation removal. The beetle kill lodgepole pine piles are made up of branches and non-salvageable parts of the trees from an old timber sale.  
News ReleaseBLM Southwest District Office, Colorado Media Contact: Deana Harms 970-403-5576