BLM Burns Slash Piles in the Big Horn Mountains and Campbell County
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Buffalo, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Buffalo Field Office is planning to burn slash piles on BLM lands this fall and winter in several areas: Billy Creek, Mosier Gulch, Slip Road, Gardner Mountain, and in the Collins Road area in northcentral Campbell County.
BLM fire crews have been working in the Mosier Gulch area, west of Buffalo, to improve forest health and reduce hazardous fuels near Highway 16 and within the BLM picnic area as part of managing public lands for the benefit of current and future generations, supporting conservation as they pursue the BLM’s multiple use mission. Thinning treatments removed ladder fuels, dead and dying trees, and ponderosa pine encroachment.
In the Billy Creek area, the BLM provides a public slash disposal site to local homeowners. The site is for non-commercial use and can accommodate small material such as branches and small trees. The BLM burns the pile every winter and would like to remind users that excavated stumps are not allowed in the pile because they are difficult to move and burn. Also in the Billy Creek area, the BLM will burn approximately 30 hand piles in a meadow restoration project.
Along the Slip Road, BLM fire crews have been hand thinning to restore meadows and curl-leaf mahogany stands, and to create fuel breaks adjacent to the road. On Gardner Mountain the BLM is burning machine piles from a timber sale.
In northcentral Campbell County near Collins Road, the Conservation District and Wyoming State Forestry Division have completed thinning treatments on private lands and the BLM will burn hand piles on about 80 acres.
Burning may begin in November 2018 and continue through April 2019. All prescribed burn projects are conducted in accordance with approved burn plans which specify weather, smoke dispersal, and fuel moisture conditions.
For more information, please contact The Buffalo Field Office front desk at (307) 684-1100, Jacob McClure at (307) 684-1064 or Jennifer Walker at (307) 684-1164.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.