Conditions permitting, fire crews from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct a prescribed burn prescribed burn
A prescribed burn is the controlled use of fire to restore wildlife habitat, reduce wildfire risk, or achieve other habitat management goals. We have been using prescribed burn techniques to improve species habitat since the 1930s.
Learn more about prescribed burn at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, New Mexico during the week of September 15. The burn will remove dead stands of salt cedars previously treated with herbicides and help to reduce any resprouting of the invasive plant.
Prescribed fire applied to small units of chemically treated salt cedar over a four year period will ultimately result in the treatment of approximately 805 acres of refuge lands. The benefits of this treatment will be a reduced fuels load, the eventual natural restoration of native vegetation and an enhanced wildlife habitat.
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class=WP9Heading Existing barriers such as roads, levees and ditches will serve as fire restraints along with newly constructed dozer lines.
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class=WP9Heading Smoke will be visible in the area from the onset and may last up to three days. Monitoring patrols will be conducted until smoke is no longer visible within the burned area.
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class=WP9Heading Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and the visitor
