Prescribed Fire Planned for Burns Canyon
Fire managers at Pagosa Ranger District/Field Office of the San Juan Public Lands are planning to conduct prescribed burns on National Forest and Bureau of Land Management Lands during the spring. Conditions allowing, burning could begin Thursday or Friday in Burns Canyon, nine miles southwest of Pagosa Springs. Smoke will likely be visible from downtown Pagosa Springs, along US Highway 84 south of town, and from the Pagosa Lakes area.
Firefighters will be burning slash piles which are residue from thinning projects completed last fall.
Areas identified for burning this spring include:
Bureau of Land Management lands on Vigil and Abeyta Mesas, twenty-five miles south of Pagosa Springs.
Forest Service lands Burns Canyon.
225 acres in the Lower Middle Mountain area about twelve miles west of Pagosa Springs.
The headwaters of Devil Creek in the Turkey Springs area seven miles northwest of downtown of Pagosa Springs.
Within the Piedra Area near the end of First Fork Road, on the west side of the Piedra River, between Sand Creek and First Fork.
For additional information about these burns or other fuels-reduction efforts, visit the local San Juan Public Lands office, Pagosa Ranger district, at 180 Pagosa Street, Pagosa Springs or call 970 264-2268.
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Phyllis Wheaton
Visitor Information Services
San Juan Public Lands
Pagosa Ranger District
P.O. Box 310
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147
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