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Firefighters burn 5 acres of piles at Dawson project 02-28-2024
Southwest District BLM Prescribed Fire
Publication Type: Announcement - 02/28/2024 - 17:06
Today, firefighters on the BLM Dawson project burned approximately 60 piles to accomplish 5 acres of treatment. Dawson project area is in Disappointment Valley,15 miles northeast of Dove Creek, CO.
Project is part of a pinyon-juniper woodland research being conducted on the response to thinning by studying the growth rates, understory response and soil moisture. Treatments also assist in reducing hazardous fuels to protect wildland-urban interface communities and to restore forest health.
Expect some light visible smoke in the area as vegetation in the interior continue to smolder and go out.
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