Prescribed fire at Ft. Bliss in New Mexico

Prescribed fire Ft. Bliss

Above: Prescribed fire on Ft. Bliss in New Mexico, April 11, 2016. Photo by Shawn Giorgianni.

In the past, wildfires have escaped from the artillery practice ranges on Ft. Bliss in the New Mexico Organ Mountains near Rucker Canyon with some of them burning onto Bureau of Land Management and White Sands Missile Range property.

On April 11 personnel from the Fort Bliss Fire and Emergency Services Division completed a prescribed fire that will reduce the chance of a fire spreading outside the Doña Ana Artillery Range.

Fort Bliss is a U.S. Army post in New Mexico and Texas headquartered in El Paso, Texas. With an area of about 1,700 square miles, it is the Army’s second-largest installation, behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range.

Ft Bliss map

New Jersey: prescribed fire at Delaware Water Gap

On April 6th, 2016, wildland firefighters from multiple agencies worked with personnel from the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to help reduce the number of invasive plants on 200 acres near Walpack Center, New Jersey. They expect the treatment will give native plant species the chance to repopulate and thrive.

Shasta-Trinity National Forest conducts Green Mountain prescribed fire

On Thursday, April 7th, the National Recreation Area Management Unit of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in northern California conducted a prescribed fire on Green Mountain, north of Redding near the confluence of the Squaw and Pit Arms of Shasta Lake.

When we read the tweet above we called to get more information. Andrea Crain of the Shasta-Trinity NF said they had a few small spot fires across the intended border of the unit they burned yesterday, but it was still within the project area. The largest spot fire was about a quarter acre.

Click on the pictures a couple of times to see larger versions.

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(UPDATE at 6:43 p.m. MDT, April 8, 2016)

John Waldrop sent us this photo of the Green Mountain prescribed fire as seen from the Pit River Bridge on Lake Shasta.

Green Mountain prescribed fire
Green Mountain prescribed fire as seen from Lake Shasta. Photo by John Waldrop.

Indiana Dunes ignites prescribed fires at West Beach

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore prescribed fire

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore applied prescribed fire to about half a dozen units yesterday live-streaming from the scene two or three times on Facebook. The recordings are preserved and we posted a couple of them here.

The units the park worked on were in the West Beach area, a portion of the 600 acres they expect to burn this spring. The park is on the south shore of Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore prescribed fire

Photos and videos by Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Prescribed fire at Bloody Bridge

The Mourne Heritage Trust in Ireland posted this tweet about a “pilot” controlled burn. It appears that it attracted some onlookers. Click on the photos to see larger versions.

Information about Bloody Bridge from Wikepidia:

The Bloody Bridge – The bridge and the Bloody Bridge River, were so named because of an incident during the 1641 Rebellion, during which a massacre of Protestants took place. Its beauty is widely appreciated by tourists who go to see the ‘Brandy Pad’, called after the trade of illegal brandy which was smuggled down this route and from there onwards at the dead of night to Hilltown.

Mt. Laguna prescribed fire still visible on web cam

prescribed fire Mt. Laguna 1424 3-18-2016

The prescribed fire in southern California we told you about yesterday can still be watched in near-real time on web cams. The U.S. Forest Service is conducting the project near the San Diego State University Observatory on Mt. Laguna east of San Diego (my old stomping grounds).

You can watch the progress of the burn in near-real time via the HPWREN web camera site. The still photos, updated frequently, are available on two cameras, looking north and west.

prescribed fire Mt. Laguna 1424 3-18-2016

 

Mt Laguna Rx fire 1302 PDT 3-17-2016
The yellow squares represent the location of heat detected by a satellite at 1:02 p.m. PDT March 17, 2016. Click to see a larger version.

Pleasant Valley prescribed fire — updated with video

Pleasant Valley Rx Fire

(UPDATED March 10, 2016: added the video above.)

The South Dakota Wildland Fire Division completed a 244-acre prescribed fire today west of Pringle in the Pleasant Valley Game Production Area. Assisted by firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and local volunteer fire departments, their objectives were to reduce pine regeneration and encroachment and to improve elk habitat.

Here are a few photos from today’s activities. Later we will add more.

Pleasant Valley Prescribed Fire South Dakota
Pleasant Valley Prescribed Fire South Dakota

Pleasant Valley Prescribed Fire South Dakota

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