Fire personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Southwest Region are conducting 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.
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The burn will treat approximately 2,500 acres of Chihuahuan grasslands during this routine fuels reduction maintenance operation.
This prescribed burning operation is the first of five units contained in the Dry Lonesome Burn Plan encompassing 25,255 acres slated for treatment on the Refuge. The burn unit locations are in the north/northwest portion of the refuge. The burn area is west of Interstate 25 and north of the Rio Salado.
Assisting in the burn are fire personnel from the Bureau of Land Management's Socorro Field Office and New Mexico State Forestry.
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