Pile burning projects taking place week of December 16, 2019

Underwood - along Underwood Mountain Road south of Burnt Ranch, 16 acres
Sugarloaf - near Lakehead, 5 acres
Hirz - along Girard Ridge east of Castle Crags, 130 acres
Harris - northeast of McCloud, 3 acres
Mudflow - near McCloud, 16 acres

Multiple prescribed fire projects are taking place across the forest this week (Dec 9-13) as conditions allow: 

 
South Fork Management Unit - 

Potato Piles - 40 acres
Westside Machine Piles - 20 piles


Trinity River Management Unit 

Musser Homestead Piles -3 acres (north of Weaverville)
Jackass Piles - 4 acres
Professor Piles - 11.5 acres 
Brown Piles - 5 acres (east of Trinity Lake)


Shasta Trinity National Recreation Area

Sugarloaf Piles - 10 acres (north of Lakehead)


Shasta McCloud management Unit

Harris Piles - 41 acres
 

Multiple prescribed fire projects are taking place across the forest this week (Dec 2-6) as conditions allow: 

 
South Fork Management Unit - 

Dobbins Machine Piles - 1 acre
Potato Piles - 40 acres
Ewing Piles - 3 acres 

Trinity River Management Unit 

Musser Homestead Piles - 63 acres

Shasta Trinity National Recreation Area

Bear Piles - 10 acres

Shasta McCloud management Unit

Elk Replacement/Frosty Piles - 14 acres
Red Fox Piles - 4 acres
Mud Flow Piles - 60 acres
Wash Piles - 4 acres 


 

Project Name:  Mountain Thin

Legal Location: T40N R3W S8,16,27

Descriptive Location: South side of Mt. Shasta, near the ski park

Type of burn: Machine Piles

Total Acreage: up to 194 acres

Planned Ignition: 11/25-11/26

Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 2 days. Smoke production could last an additional 2 days.  

Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: SE/E

Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke will be visible from the Ski Park Hwy. No impacts to communities or Hwy 89 anticipated.

Project Name:  Elk

Legal Location: T41N R1W S27-34

Descriptive Location: North of the Pilgrim Creek Snowmobile Park

Type of burn: Machine & Landing Piles

Total Acreage: up to 327 acres

Planned Ignition: 11/25-11/26

Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 2 days. Smoke production could last an additional 7-10 days.  

Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: SE/E

Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke will be visible from the Pilgrim Creek Road. No impacts to communities or Hwy 89 anticipated.

REDDING, Calif. - The Shasta-Trinity National Forest will soon resume fuels reduction activities on the multi-year Northwoods Vegetation Management project near Packers Bay south of O’Brien Mountain on the Shasta Lake National Recreation Area and west of Interstate 5. The total vegetation management project includes approximately 1,250 acres of mechanical treatment and prescribed fire operations. The goal of the project is to reduce the severity of future wildfires and provide added protection for communities in the wildland urban interface.

Project managers plan to initiate prescribed fire operations on the Northwoods Deuce portion of the project which includes treating approximately 430 acres between Packers Bay and Halfway Cove starting as early as next week. This portion of the project will connect with previous successful burning which occurred between Packers Bay and Halfway Cove this past March when 190 acres were accomplished on the area north of Water’s Gulch trail.

“The prescribed fire will create a landscape with a reduced amount of ladder fuels and dead vegetation, making fire suppression efforts easier. Once treated, the site will provide a safer place for firefighters to work and better opportunities to control future wildfires,” explained Prescribed Fire & Fuels Specialist Andrew Spain.

Actual project initiation dates will depend upon local weather and fuel conditions. Smoke will be visible from many areas around Shasta Lake, along Interstate 5 near Bridge Bay, and north of Redding. Residual smoke may be visible for several days and project managers will be working with the Air Quality Management Board to ensure compliance with air quality regulations and health and safety conditions.

For more information or updates about burn progress, please contact Battalion Chief Pat Bell at the Shasta Lake Ranger Station, (530) 242-5557 or visit https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6239/.

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Update: this project ignition date has been delayed until further notice.

The following prescribed fire project is planned for this week:

Northwoods Deuce underburn project up to 450 acres planned starting October 16, near Packers Bay, Shasta Lake, Smoke will be visible from Interstate 5 north of Redding

Project initiation dates are dependent upon several factors, including, but not limited to favorable weather and site conditions. Should it become necessary, individual project ignition start dates may be delayed until later in the year for more favorable conditions. Fire managers will be working with Air Quality Management Districts to ensure compliance with air quality regulations and health and safety conditions.

Prescribed fire operations create a landscape with a reduced amount of ladder fuels and dead vegetation. Once treated, these sites will provide defensible space and better opportunities to control fires because of reduced fire behavior. The project will also simulate the natural role of fire in the ecosystem by that will improve and protect forest health and vigor.

Pre-ignition public notifications will be provided to local media outlets and will also be posted on https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6603/, the Forest’s Facebook www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF and Twitter www.twitter.com/ShastaTrinityNF pages. For more information, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (530) 226-2494

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Several prescribed fires are planned for this week:

Elk underburn project up to 328 acres planned October 15 and 621 acres October 16, location: north of Pilgrim Creek Snowmobile Park northeast of McCloud, smoke may be visible from Hwy 89 and McCloud
 

Porcupine underburn project up to 150 acres planned October 15, location north of Bear Mountain
 
Harris underburn project up to 208 acres planned October 16, location northeast of McCloud

Project initiation dates are dependent upon several factors, including, but not limited to favorable weather and site conditions. Should it become necessary, individual project ignition start dates may be delayed until later in the year for more favorable conditions. Fire managers will be working with Air Quality Management Districts to ensure compliance with air quality regulations and health and safety conditions.

Prescribed fire operations create a landscape with a reduced amount of ladder fuels and dead vegetation. Once treated, these sites will provide defensible space and better opportunities to control fires because of reduced fire behavior. The project will also simulate the natural role of fire in the ecosystem by that will improve and protect forest health and vigor.

Pre-ignition public notifications will be provided to local media outlets and will also be posted on https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6603/, the Forest’s Facebook www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF and Twitter www.twitter.com/ShastaTrinityNF pages. For more information, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (530) 226-2494

#PrescribedFire #GoodFire #ActiveForestManagement

Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Trinity River Management Unit will be conducting upcoming prescribed fire operations to remove understory fuels on National Forest System lands in the areas of North Lake in Trinity Center, CA and Musser Hill in Weaverville, CA. Expected project ignition dates for the burns may be as early as Wednesday October 16, weather and fuels conditions permitting. Specific project information is below.

• North Lake near the Trinity Center Ball Park in Trinity Center, CA – Multiple units may be burned as conditions allow up to 119 acres. Smoke will be visible from Trinity Center, Coffee Creek, Trinity Lake and various places along Hwy 3 and Eastside road (County road 106) during burn operations and smoke may continue to be visible through the following few days after ignitions.

   

• Musser Hill in Weaverville, CA - Approximately 96 acres are included in the project. Smoke will be visible from Oregon Mountain Summit, Weaverville and various places north of town along Hwy 3 during burn operations and smoke may continue to be visible through the following few days after ignitions.
  
  

Project initiation dates are dependent upon several factors, including, but not limited to favorable weather and site conditions. Should it become necessary, individual project ignition start dates may be delayed until later in the year for more favorable conditions. Fire managers will be working with North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District to ensure compliance with air quality regulations and health and safety conditions.

Prescribed fire operations create a landscape with a reduced amount of ladder fuels and dead vegetation. Once treated, these sites will provide defensible space and better opportunities to control fires because of reduced fire behavior. The project will also simulate the natural role of fire in the ecosystem by that will improve and protect forest health and vigor.

Pre-ignition public notifications will be provided to local media outlets and will also be posted on https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6603/, the Forest’s Facebook www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF and Twitter www.twitter.com/ShastaTrinityNF pages. For more information, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (530) 226-2494 or the Weaverville Ranger Station at (530) 623-2121.

Annually, fire managers implement prescribed fire projects on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. These projects are part of a fuels management program. Each project has specific objectives involving reduction of hazardous fuels. The forest fuels and vegetation management program analyzes techniques to treat areas using a combination of methods. One treatment option is mechanical thinning and application of prescribed fire to treat the residual slash. Following a mechanical thinning, sites may be prepared for prescribed fire which can involve piling material or constructing firelines (boundaries) for a broadcast fire application. A few other tasks involved in a prescribed fire application include; preparing a prescribed fire plan, assessing fuel conditions, reviewing weather forecasts prior to ignition, and setting up monitoring points. This briefly summarizes some of the prescribed fire aspects in the fire management program. 

Update 10/3/2019: the Harrison Gulch prescribed fire has been postponed pending favorable weather and fuels conditions. We will keep you updated.

REDDING, Calif. — During the first week of October, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, South Fork Management Unit will be conducting a prescribed fire to remove understory fuels on National Forest System lands in the area of Harrison Gulch Ranger Station in Platina, CA. The target dates for the burn will be starting as early as Wednesday October 2 and could last through the fall and winter season, depending on weather and fuels conditions.

The expected project initiation dates are dependent upon several factors, including, but not limited to favorable weather and site conditions. Five units may be burned as conditions allow up to 58 acres.

Smoke will be visible from Hwy 36 near the Harrison Gulch Ranger Station during burn operations and smoke may continue to be visible through the following few days. Fire managers will be working with the Air Quality Management Board to ensure compliance with air quality regulations and health and safety conditions.

The prescribed fire operation will create a landscape with a reduced amount of ladder fuels and dead vegetation. Once treated, the site will provide defensible space and better opportunities to control fires because of reduced fire behavior. The project will also simulate the natural role of fire in the ecosystem by that will improve and protect forest health and vigor.

Pre-ignition public notifications will be provided to local media outlets and will also be posted on https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6603/, the Forest’s Facebook www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF and Twitter www.twitter.com/ShastaTrinityNF pages. For more information, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (530) 226-2494 or the Harrison Gulch Ranger Station at (530) 352-4211 (Monday through Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)