Butte Field Office
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BLM To Burn Slash Piles Near Wise River, Melrose, Wolf Creek
The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office will burn slash piles during the upcoming months in Beaverhead, Silver Bow and Lewis and Clark counties, near Wise River, Melrose and Wolf Creek.
The slash piles to be burned are located in the Bryant Creek, Soap Gulch, Maiden Rock, Triangle Gulch, and the Log Gulch and Holter Lake Recreation Sites.
The piles will be burned when the ground is snow-covered or when the surrounding fuels are wet enough to minimize the potential for unwanted fire spread. Burning will take place only when weather conditions and forecasts allow for adequate smoke dispersion.
The timing of the burns depends on weather and fuel conditions. The prescribed burns will be implemented by fire managers from the BLM with assistance from the Forest Service.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
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