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Williams Ranger District
Prescribed Pile Burning Update WILLIAMS, Ariz. – Kaibab National Forest fire crews plan to continue prescribed pile burning on the Williams Ranger District Tuesday, December
20. Pending favorable conditions and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality approval, fire crews plan to ignite approximately 50 acres of slash piles three miles southeast of Williams, north of Dogtown Lake.
The National Weather Service is calling for light northeast winds Tuesday. Managers expect smoke to travel southwest of the project during operations
and to settle in the local area overnight. Piles are made of stacked tree slash cut during thinning projects. The goals of thinning and pile burning are to reduce fire hazard and return
important nutrients to the soil. For more information about prescribed fires, please call Punky Moore, Fire Information Officer, 928-635-5653 or call the recorded information line at 928-635-8311.
-USFS- Punky Moore Fire Information Officer Williams & Tusayan Ranger Districts 742 S. Clover Rd. Williams, AZ 86046 928-635-5653 To receive official Forest Service information by e-mail, please subscribe by visiting http://www.fs.fed.us/news/subscription/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit http://www.fs.fed.us/news/subscription If you wish to make changes to an existing account, please visit http://www.fs.fed.us/news/changes.shtml |
