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SIERRA VISTA — The weather is getting better, and that means U.S. Forest Service firefighters will be out and about setting prescribed burns and continuing with burning piles of cuttings and debris, according to an agency official.
Today there are plans to burn 340 acres on Fort Huachuca in the Garden Canyon area, the first of four prescribed events scheduled for the post, according to Bill Wilcox.
The total prescribed burns on the fort is about 3,000 acres, said Wilcox, the Sierra Vista Ranger District fire management officer.
Additionally, the district is planning to have two prescribed burns on Forest Service land that will reduce fuels on 4,000 acres, he said Monday.
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The prescribed burns will continue through the end of March, the fire management officer added.
The local Forest Service firefighters also have burned about 1,000 piles of debris in the Hunter Canyon area, a project that began last year and will continue this year, Wilcox said.
The burning of the piles is part of the agency’s Wildland Urban Interface Improvement program, he said.
“We’re getting ready for the (wild) fire season,” he said, noting reducing fuels is a critical part of ensuring wildfires are easier to contain.
Additionally, sometime in the future the Sierra Vista Ranger District will be working with the National Park Service to do some prescribed burns in the Coronado National Memorial, Wilcox said.
Herald/Review senior reporter Bill Hess can be reached at 515-4615 or by e-mail at bill.hess@svherald.com.
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