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The Klamath is preparing to implement several prescribed burns this spring. Prescribed burning is an important land management tool for the ecosystems in and around the Klamath, which evolved with frequent fire events. Prescribed fire is used by fire managers to reduce surface and ladder fuels by introducing low intensity fire into an area under a predetermined set of weather and fuel conditions.
Reducing fuels through prescribed burning can decrease fire behavior when wildfires occur. That reduction in fire behavior can, in turn, lessen the risk to communities, infrastructure, natural resources, and habitat. Additional benefits of prescribed fire include improvement of overall forest health and increased resilience of wildlands to future wildfires.
Implementation of these prescribed burns is dependent on the onset of specific fuels and weather conditions, as well as resource availability.
The Klamath is preparing to implement several prescribed burns this spring. Prescribed burning is an important land management tool for the ecosystems in and around the Klamath, which evolved with frequent fire events. Prescribed fire is used by fire managers to reduce surface and ladder fuels by introducing low intensity fire into an area under a predetermined set of weather and fuel conditions.
Reducing fuels through prescribed burning can decrease fire behavior when wildfires occur. That reduction in fire behavior can, in turn, lessen the risk to communities, infrastructure, natural resources, and habitat. Additional benefits of prescribed fire include improvement of overall forest health and increased resilience of wildlands to future wildfires.
Implementation of these prescribed burns is dependent on the onset of specific fuels and weather conditions, as well as resource availability.
| Current as of | Tue, 05/06/2025 - 19:44 |
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| Incident Type | Prescribed Fire |
| Location | Klamath National Forest |
| Incident Description | The Salmon-Scott River Ranger District has two prescribed burn projects in their sights for this spring. The first is the 200-acre Scott Bar Mountain prescribed burn near Jones Beach. This is the continuation of a project that has been in progress for the last few years. The Scott Bar Mountain burn is designed to reduce the potential for wildfire impacting homes in the area and connects to a larger network of fuel breaks extending eastward toward Yreka. The second prescribed burn project is the 320-acre Hayden Ridge Project, 2.5 miles north of Callahan. This project aims to reduce fuel loading and improve forest health and wildfire resilience on a small parcel of National Forest System lands that are surrounded by private property. Over on the Goosenest District, about three miles northeast of Tennant, lie the Van Bremmer (160 acres) and Tamarack (370 acres) underburn projects. Both project areas are dominated by Ponderosa pine with pockets of cedar, white fir, juniper and an understory of brush. Prescribed fire will be used to improve the health of these forested stands and make them more resilient to wildfire, insects, and disease. Also on the Goosenest, the Cedar Mountain underburn is 800 acres broken up into multiple units ten miles southeast of Macdoel, just north of Antelope Sink. Fire managers will be looking to reduce fuels to create space for firefighters to defend Tennant and outlying residences from future wildfires, while reducing the number of juniper trees, encouraging aspen regeneration, and improving stand resilience and forage for big game. More information will be posted about specific prescribed burn projects on the Klamath National Forest’s Facebook page as implementation dates near. |
| Coordinates |
41° 45' 09.8'' Latitude
-122° 47' 44.8
'' Longitude
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| Significant Events | Fire managers on the Klamath are closely monitoring weather and fuels conditions to identify optimum windows for implementing prescribed burns. |
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