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.

Update Nov 2, 11:20 a.m. --
Ignition has begun on the Fort Valley prescribed burn.  Smoke will
be noticeable north of Flagstaff and in the Fort Valley and Baderville
areas.  
Due to unfavorable wind direction, fire
managers cancelled the Blue Ridge Urban Interface burn planned for today.
They will re-evaluate for tomorrow. 

October 30, 2009  
      
Tentative prescribed fire plans for the week of November 2

Flagstaff, AZ – Pending favorable conditions, fire managers are planning
prescribed fires on the following projects for the week of November 2.
  
All prescribed fire activity is dependent on personnel availability, weather
– including ventilation conditions, and approval from the Arizona Department
of Environmental Quality (www.azdeq.gov).

Monday, November 2 
Blue Ridge Urban Interface (BRUI) Project – 800 acres north of Highway
87, approximately 12 miles northeast of Clint’s Well.  Crews will
only burn with a south wind to minimize smoke impacts to the highway.
Fort Valley Project – 55 acres north of Flagstaff off Highway 180
near Fort Valley Ranch Road.  This is a maintenance broadcast burn,
meaning the area has been previously treated with prescribed fire.  With
less fuels being consumed, smoke on maintenance burns is generally lighter,
however, some smoke will be noticeable in the Fort Valley and Baderville
areas.   


Projects crews will consider for the remainder of the week: *Projects
may not all be accomplished depending on conditions* 
Continuing the BRUI, Ft. Valley, and Eastside Projects
East Clear Creek Project        near Knoll Lake
and Forest Road 300 (“Rim Road”) 
Bald Mesa Project              
 North of Clint’s Well off Forest Highway 3 (Lake Mary Rd)  
      
Anderson Mesa Project        East of Forest Highway
3 (Lake Mary Road), north of Ashurst Lake 
Mint Project                
       East of Lake Mary Rd near Mormon Lake Village
Pete Project                
       North of the San Francisco Peaks, west of Highway
89 


The public can obtain prescribed fire information via the following:
        Prescribed Fire Hotline: 928-226-4607
        Coconino National Forest Website: www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino
o        Click on the Prescribed Fire Link to the right
of the page 
        Sign-up to receive regular email notifications:
 http://www.fs.fed.us/news/subscription
o        Choose “Southwestern Region”
        Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CoconinoNF_Fire
        Inciweb: www.inciweb.org/incident/1889/
  
        Local Ranger Stations: Peaks Ranger District
(Flagstaff), 928-526-0866; Red Rock Ranger District (Sedona) 928-203-2900;
Mogollon Rim Ranger District (Blue Ridge) 928-477-2255

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