SOUTHWESTERN-NEWS-RELEASE: Coconino National Forest Smoke Information

["Brienne U Magee" <bmagee@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Coconino National Forest has established
this method of notifying you of
planned and current fuels treatment activities on the
forest. For confirmation or for more
information, please visit our "Current
Conditions" page of the Coconino
National Forest web-site. You may click
this link http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/conditions/current-rx.shtml,
or use the "shortcut"
to our main page: www.coconinoforest.us

The Coconino County Health Department provides information about smoke
concerns and offers suggestions for
minimizing smoke impacts to your family
and home at the following website
http://www.coconino.az.gov/health.aspx?id=6564.

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Planned Prescribed Fires for today and
Tuesday, April 27-28:
All prescribed fire activity is dependant
on weather, crew availability, and approval from the Arizona Department
of Environmental Quality (www.azdeq.gov).


Today, crews plan to conduct a broadcast
burn on the A1-Project – Approximately 300 acres located on top
of Observatory Mesa, northwest of Flagstaff.  Smoke should move north
east with today’s winds, some residual smoke may briefly linger around
the north and western edges of Flagstaff during the evening and early morning
hours, but should be light.    

Pending favorable conditions, fire managers
are planning on the following projects for tomorrow:
Fort Valley Project off Snow Bowl
Road and Freidlein Prairie Road.
Lake Mary Project west of Upper Lake
Mary

The Forest's prescribed fire activity is
also available on the Prescribed Fire Hotline at 928-226-4607.  Additional
information can be found on the website, http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/conditions/current-rx.shtml,
or by calling your local ranger station.


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