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Upcoming Prescribed Fires

Click on the links below for a list of prescribed fires that the Boulder Fire Department and Open Space/Mountain Parks Department have planned.                            Slash burn

Proposed Prescribed Burn List

 

 

Wildfire Mitigation Crew Boss Brian Oliver for the Boulder Fire Department keeps his eye on a burning slash pile in 2004.

                      

 

Crews burn ditches near Valmont

 

 

The crew burn ditches on Open Space & Mountain Park lands near 7800 Valmont Road in 2004.

 

 

 

Benefits of prescribed fire include removing dead vegetation, returning nutrients to the soil, reducing noxious weeds and negative effects of unwanted wildfires while providing valuable research for resource managers, and hands-on training and coordination for area firefighters and resource managers.

Spring and fall are the typical prescribed fire seasons. Fire managers also consider potential negative smoke impacts for public safety, contingency plans and preparations to reduce the threat of an escaped fire and wildlife and resource concerns. 

 

 

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 July 2007 03:35

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