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BLM Tres Rios Field Office plans prescribed pile burns in Dolores and Montezuma counties 02-26-2024
Updated On: - 02/26/2024 / 14:59
News ReleaseBLM Southwest District Office, ColoradoMedia Contact: Deana Harms 970-240-5335February 26, 2024
BLM Southwest District plan to prescribe burn piles at West Dolores Rim - 01-06-2024
Updated On: - 01/06/2024 / 10:53
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.
BLM Tres Rios Field Office plans winter prescribed pile burning on public lands 01-10-2024
Updated On: 01/10/2024
Prescribed fires planned on Carpenter Ridge and West Dolores Rim - Fall 2023
Updated On: 09/28/2023
Prescribed fires planned on Carpenter Ridge and West Dolores Rim
Firefighters burned 340 acres on West Dolores Rim Prescribed Burn - September 23, 2023
Updated On: 09/26/2023
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.
April 24, 2023 BLM plans to conduct prescribed fires on West Dolores Rim and Animas City Mountain
Updated On: 05/01/2023
News ReleaseSouthwest District Office, Colorado
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 24, 2023
Contact: Deana Harms, Public Information Officer, 970-501-5665
RX pile burn successful at BLM Gunnison Gorge NCA on Dec. 13, 2023
Updated On: 12/15/2022
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.
BLM winter prescribed pile burning planned in Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area
Updated On: 12/13/2022
December 12, 2022
BLM Gunnison Field Office - Baldy Pine RX Pile Burn accomplished 280 acres on December 8, 2022
Updated On: 12/09/2022
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.
BLM Gunnison and Tres Rios Field Offices plan winter prescribed pile burning - Nov. 9, 2022
Updated On: 11/15/2022
News ReleaseBLM Southwest District Office, Colorado
Media Contact: Deana Harms 970-403-5576