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A controlled or prescribed (Rx) burn is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape. The purpose could be for forest management , ecological restoration , land clearing or wildfire fuel management.
In 2023, the Sequoia National Forest fire-management crews from each district, contractor and partner conducted over 5,695 acres of prescribed burn operations, and approximately 10,125 piles were ...
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire formed from the merger of two separate wildfires: the Hermits Peak Fire began on April 6 when the U.S. Forest Service lost control of a prescribed burn, and the Calf Canyon Fire began on April 9 when an improperly extinguished Forest Service pile burn from January rekindled. The two fires burned into each other ...
Leger Fernández's remarks were made in response to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report on Forest Service prescribed burns that ran wild, burning more than 341,000 acres in San Miguel ...
The Forest Service enacted similar measures in 1974 by changing its policy from fire control to fire management, allowing lightning fires to burn in wilderness areas. This included both naturally caused fire and intentional prescribed fire . [ 12 ]
Chico has had a prescribed burn program for over a decade, and completes roughly two to three prescribed burns a year. ... Last year, the state and U.S. Forest Service set a goal to thin state ...
The U.S. Forest Service took responsibility for starting the blaze, which began as a prescribed burn but quickly spread out of control by high winds. Congress set aside nearly $4 billion to ...
The Cerro Pelado Fire was a wildfire that burned in the southern Jemez Mountains in Sandoval County, southwest of Los Alamos, in the state of New Mexico in the United States as part of the 2022 New Mexico wildfire season. The cause of the fire was determined to be an escaped prescribed burn started by the US Forest Service.