Boise, Idaho.
Sept. 26, 2018 -- Southwest Idaho interagency fire
managers anticipate favorable weather conditions for planned low-intensity
prescribed burns this fall. Prescribed burns are designed to reduce hazardous vegetation
(fuels), minimize wildfire potential near communities and improve wildlife
habitat.
Weather and fuel conditions
permitting, prescribed burns are scheduled to start in October and continue
through November. Approximately 2,600
acres are planned for controlled ignitions in 13 project areas within the Boise
National Forest.
Public and firefighter
safety is always the first priority in all public land fire operations. Fire
managers develop burn plans that consider: safety, specific fuel and weather
prescriptions and smoke management. All prescribed burns are closely evaluated
and are only approved when conditions are favorable.
Fire officials strongly
advise forest visitors and homeowners to prepare and plan activities around the
proposed dates and locations of burns. Prescribed burns may impact individual’s that are sensitive
to smoke. Recreationists should use extreme caution
near prescribed fire areas and comply with closures.
Access to areas
immediately within or adjacent to burning operations may be temporarily
restricted for public health and safety. Specific information and signage will
be posted in advance of ignitions and remain in place until operations are
completed. Please be cautious of firefighters and additional equipment within
these areas as visibility will be decreased with smoke.
The www.rxfire.com website is updated with information regarding southwest Idaho
burns planned within Idaho Department of Lands, Bureau of Land Management,
Payette National Forest and Boise National Forest.
The Boise National Forest prescribed burn hotline:
(208)-373-4208.
Idaho
City Ranger District
·
Alder Ridge (100
acres):
located 1 mile north of Placerville, Idaho. This is a landscape burn (ground
fire), using hand ignitions to reduce fuel in the wildland urban interface
(WUI).
·
Amber (300 acres): located 2 miles east of
Idaho City, Idaho. This is a modified tree well burn.
·
Buckskin (200): located approximately 3 miles east of Idaho
City, Idaho.
·
Little Ophir (100
acres):
located 4 miles west of Pioneerville, Idaho. A landscape burn using hand
ignitions that will reduce fuel in
the WUI.
·
Mores South-Granite
Creek (250 acres): located 3 miles east of Idaho City, Idaho. This is a
landscape burn (ground fire) using hand ignitions to reduce fuels in the WUI.
Cascade Ranger District
·
Horsethief (360 acres): located about 1 mile east/northeast of Horsethief Reservoir. This
burn involves helicopter and hand ignitions to reduce fuels throughout the area
that is within the WUI.
·
Westside Restoration
Unit 39 (25 acres): This project is located on National Forest System (NFS) road
435 along West Mountain. It is approximately 10 miles west of Cascade, Idaho.
This will be hand ignitions burn to reduce fuels within the WUI.
·
Crawford (100 acres): located approximately
4 miles east of Cascade, Idaho adjacent to the Crawford Guard Station, located
off of NFS road 22, northeast of Davis reservoir; within WUI area.
·
Lower Johnson Thinning
(95 acres):
Is a project designed to reduce hazardous fuels within the WUI. This project is
located approximately 7 miles south of Yellow Pine along NFS road 413 and
Johnson Creek.
·
Yellow Pine Blowdown
(40 acres): is
located approximately 62 miles from Cascade, Idaho and is adjacent to the community
of Yellow Pine. Hand Ignitions will be used to ignite machine piles along NFS
roads 412, 413.
·
Rainbow Point (19
acres): This
project is located approximately 25 miles northwest of Cascade, Idaho. Machine
Piles located within the Rainbow Point campground will be ignited by hand to
reduce fuel accumulations throughout the campground.
Mountain
Home Ranger District
· Cottonwood II Rx (1000 acres): This project is located
about 17 miles NE of Boise, Idaho along NFS roads 203 and 377 in the Cottonwood
Creek drainage, north of Arrowrock Reservoir.
Emmett
Ranger District
·
Miscellaneous
Administrative Piles (1-2 acres): At Garden Valley work center.
