Planned burning ahead this spring
Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 10 months AGO
The Flathead National Forest plans to conduct spring prescribed fire projects, with timing depending on weather, fuel conditions and air quality.
Smoke will be visible from throughout the Flathead Valley while burns are in progress.
The prescribed fire projects are located and designed to reduce the potential for adverse effects and for the burns to escape as wildland fires.
The project areas include:
— Meadow Smith Area, Swan Lake Ranger District: This project includes under-burning timber stands located within the Meadow and Smith Creek areas of the Swan Valley. These treatments will use prescribed fire for fuels reduction, vegetation regeneration and wildlife habitat improvement.
— Condon Fuels: This project includes under-burning timber stands located within the vicinity of the Condon Work Center in the Swan Valley.
— Wild Cramer: This project includes broadcast and under-burning in stands located within the Blacktail Mountain area west of Lakeside.
— Pile burning: Hand or machine piles are located in several locations within the Swan Valley and on Blacktail Mountain as a result of logging, hazardous fuels reduction in the wildland urban interface, hazard tree removal and road and trail construction.
— Logan 203, Tally Lake Ranger District: This is a 64-acre natural fuels understory burn to reduce fuel in the wildland-urban interface and improved mule deer and elk habitat in the Star Meadows area.
— Beaver Lake North 30: This is a 34-acre natural fuels understory burn to reduce fuel in the wildland-urban interface and improve big game habitat approximately four miles west of Whitefish.
— Hungry Horse District: At the Forest Service compound, approximately five acres will be burned to reduce the fuel load, creating less likelihood of a significant fire starting and spreading to other properties in the community.
For more information about these projects, contact the Hungry Horse/Glacier View Ranger District at (406) 387-3800, the Tally Lake Ranger District at (406) 758-5204 or the Swan Lake Ranger District at (406) 837-7500
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