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Yellow Jacket Pile Burning Canyons of the Ancients National Monument March 14 - 15, 2024 03-14-2024
Southwest District BLM Prescribed Fire
Publication Type: Announcement - 03/14/2024 - 08:34
Weather forecast looks good today and Friday for firefighters to burn 35-acres of hand piles at Yellow Jacket/McElmo project area, located on BLM lands within Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. The site runs north and south of Montezuma County Road G in Montezuma County, Colorado. Piles are from a previous invasive species removal of tamarisk and Russian olive project. Expect visible smoke throughout today, and lighter amounts for several days as vegetation in the interior continue to smolder.
The project area has a detailed burn plan that outlines the parameters for prescribed burning and contains specific criteria regarding weather conditions and air quality that must be met to ensure control of the burn, as well as minimizing the potential smoke impact to local communities.
For more information on smoke, visit https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/wood-smoke-and-health
For information on prescribed burns, visit the Southwest District BLM Prescribed Fire InciWeb page https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7852/ or follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/SWD_Fire and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BLMMontroseFireUnit