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Updated: 05-Dec-2011 11:55

Prescribed Fires 2011

The primary objectives for these burns is to improve forage conditions for wildlife habitat, decrease fuel build-up reducing potential of high risk wildfires, and restore fire to the landscape to play a more historical and natural role in the environment.

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Prescribed Fire	Description
Pile Burning Grand Teton National Park	LOCATIONS: String Lake Picnic area, Shadow Mountain, Signal Mountain Campground, Death Canyon Road, Hidden Falls, Beaver Creek and the Murie Center. SCHEDULED: Piles at String Lake and Hidden Falls will be burned Oct. 25. CONTACT: Traci Weaver 307-739-3692
Phelps Moraine	LOCATION: West of Death Canyon Trailhead Road, south of the White Grass Ranger Station in Grand Teton National Park SCHEDULED: Completed Oct. 2, 2011 SIZE: 84 acres CONTACT: Traci Weaver 307-739-3692 Flyer and News Release
Beaver Mountain	LOCATION: Jackson Ranger District, Beaver Mountain just south of Bryan Flats in Hoback Canyon. SCHEDULED: Fall 2011 PROJECT SIZE: 1240 acres ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Map CONTACT: Jason Lawhon 307-739-5431
Cottonwood II	LOCATION: Approximately 25 miles west of Daniel, WY SCHEDULED: Summer or Fall, 2011 SIZE: 1,093 acres CONTACT: Nan Stinson 307-276-5826 News Release and Area Map
Lower Gros Ventre	LOCATION: North of Slide Lake, south of the Ditch Creek drainage. SCHEDULED: Fall, 2011, as weather and burning conditions allow.
Weiner Creek	LOCATION: Approximately 10 miles South of Alpine, WY SCHEDULED: Weather did not cooperate for fall 2010 and 2011, postponed until further notice. The Weiner Basin portion of this project area was burned in September of 2007 and project objectives were met. PROJECT SIZE: Approximately 1,800 acres CONTACT: Dwayne Gibbons 307-886-5333 News Release, Flyer and Map
Fontenelle Willow	LOCATION: Twenty five miles north of Kemmerer, WY SCHEDULED: Spring 2012 SIZE: 572 acres CONTACT: Kirk Strom 307-828-5116 News Release and Map
Shadow Mountain	LOCATION: 5 miles north of Kelly, west of Shadow Mt. developed area COMPLETED: September 21, 2011 PROJECT SIZE:46 acres ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Flyer CONTACT: Traci Weaver, 307-690-1128
Hunter Ranch	LOCATION: East of the junction of Antelope Flats Road and Gros Ventre Road, north of Kelly Fire crews attempted to burn the Hunter Ranch unit on Sept. 15. Because of high humidity and light winds, the sparse vegetation was not carrying fire, and crews were unable to achieve set objectives for the project. Fire managers called off the prescribed fire mid-afternoon after repeated attempts to get it to burn. PROJECT SIZE: 186 acres ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Flyer and News Release CONTACT: Mack McFarland, 307-739-3313
Pole Creek	LOCATION: Approximately 25 miles northwest of Kemmerer, WY. SCHEDULED: Spring 2012 SIZE: Sept. 2010 completed 6,320 acres of the 13,000 acre project. CONTACT: Kirk Strom 307-828-5116 Flyer , map and News Release
Lava Creek	LOCATION: 3 miles east of Moran, north of Hwy. 26, just east of Grand Teton National Park boundary on the Buffalo Ranger District. SCHEDULED: Postponed PROJECT SIZE: 226 acres ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Flyer CONTACT: Buffalo Ranger District, 307-543-2386
Dry Quad	LOCATION: 12 miles south east of Moran Junction on the Buffalo Ranger District. SCHEDULED: October 2011/ First stage of pile burning is Complete.Next phase will include a broadcast burn to reduce the fuel remaining on the ground. PROJECT SIZE: 530 acres divided into 2 prescribed fire units. CONTACT: Jason Lawhon 307-739-5431
Upper Palmer Creek	LOCATION: South of Hoback Junction in the Palmer Creek area on the Jackson Ranger District. SCHEDULED: Completed PROJECT SIZE: 400 acres This prescribed fire is part of a Hoback Junction Fuels Reduction project to reduce risk to homeowners and property, reduce future fire potential intensities during unplanned fire events, and increase safety for fire suppression crews. A human-caused fire in the Deer Creek area (in the vicinity of the burn unit) was reported on September 23 and was suppressed and declared out on September 24. The incident shows the potential for wildland fire ignitions and the subsequent need for increasing defensible space in the Hoback Junction area. Palmer Creek Trail is open. Users should be cautious and know that short fire runs, falling trees, or smoke may be present in or adjacent to the burn unit. Fire information boards in the area include maps of the prescribed fire area. Residual smoke may be present in the Hoback area for the following week. Contact: Lesley Williams 307-413-8915