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Firefighters have the weather conditions to resume ignitions at Grandview today. Grandview is located southeast of downtown Durango, CO.  Smoke will be visible from Highways 160 and 550. Firefighters are looking at burning a small 25-acre unit today. 

Firefighters completed ignitions around noon today at BLM Edgemont and Grandview pile burn units. All 65 piles at Edgemont were ignited. Firefighters on the Grandview unit started experiencing undesirable smoke dispersal and low consumption on the hand piles and ceased ignitions at 200 piles. Treatment accomplishments for the day for Edgemont was 40 acres and Grandview 30 acres.

Conditions are looking good today for firefighters to conduct prescribe pile burning on BLM Tres Rios Field Office manage lands adjacent to Durango, CO. Currently, both Edgemont and Grandview project sites have six to twelve inches of snow on the ground.

On January 10th and 11th, 2024, BLM Colorado Southwest District plans to burn 65 machine piles on BLM land north of Edgemont Highlands subdivision, along with 2000 hand piles in the Grandview area southeast of downtown Durango. 

Over the last couple of days, firefighters were able to burn 20 piles of logging slash from a 425-acre fuels reduction treatment at West Dolores Rim project area on Tres Rios Field Office BLM managed lands located southeast of Dolores, CO. This completes burning in the area for the winter.

Conditions are good, especially with additional snow overnight for firefighters to continue prescribe burning at West Dolores Rim project area this afternoon. They plan to burn approximately ten large logging slash piles. Project area is on BLM managed lands southeast of Dolores, CO. Firefighters accomplished 275 acres of piles at project area yesterday.

Snowy weather conditions gave firefighters the opportunity to burn 175 acres of piles from logging slash at the West Dolores Rim project area on Tres Rios Field Office BLM managed lands located southeast of Dolores, CO. There will be some residual smoke for a few days as piles smolder and burn out. 

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. 

On December 4, 2023, Tres Rios Field Office BLM personnel and Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control firefighters out of Dolores, Colorado burned 200 piles over approximately 20 acres at the Dawson Research Units in Disappointment Valley.

Conditions look good for firefighters to continue prescribe pile burning in the Dawson Draw project area on Tres Rios Field Office BLM-managed lands located 15 miles northeast of Dove Creek, CO on December 4, 2023. If conditions allow firefighters plan to burn in Dawson Draw on Tuesday, December 5, 2023.