Prescribed fire across from Aspen Mountain started Monday

Prescribed fire across from Aspen Mountain started Monday

At 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 14, helicopter blades began slicing through the air on a grassy field above houses that overlooked Aspen Mountain.  The blades beat faster and faster until the helicopter lifted off and turned toward the hillside, doing circles above the landscape. Meanwhile, on the ground, White River National Forest crews worked to give the go-ahead for a “test fire” of the “Sunnyside Prescribed Fire” that was scheduled to take p…

Prescribed burns conducted by U.S. Forest Service on Rabbit Ears Pass going ‘smoothly’

Prescribed burns conducted last week by the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday and Friday in the McKinnis and Harrison Creek areas on Rabbit Ears Pass went “smoothly,” according to Hahns Peak/Bears Ears District Ranger Michael Woodbridge. “I’m really happy with the results,” Woodbridge said. “We got a really great burn pulled off both days, really good fire effects… Everything went really smoothly.” A news release issued by the Forest Service earli…

Orton Plantation to conduct prescribed controlled burn

Orton will conduct a prescribed controlled burn today.

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest to begin prescribed fires this month - Elkhorn Media Group

BAKER CITY — (Release from the U.S. Forest Service) Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is planning prescribed fire operations this month. We estimate this work to continue through the spring as weather conditions allow. We use prescribed fires to help reduce overgrown vegetation to help protect local communities, infrastructure and natural resources from wildfires.  The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has developed a prescribed fire interactive map…