BUFFALO, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to burn slash piles on public lands this fall and winter in several areas: Billy Creek; Mosier Gulch; Beartrap; near Bitter Creek in northwestern Campbell County as part of the BLM’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive.
BLM has been working in the Mosier Gulch area, west of Buffalo, to improve forest health and reduce hazardous fuels near Highway 16 and within the BLM picnic area. Thinning treatments have removed ladder fuels, dead and dying trees, as well as ponderosa pine encroachment.
In the Billy Creek area, the BLM provides a public slash disposal site to local homeowners. The site is for non-commercial use and can accommodate small material such as branches and small trees. BLM burns the pile every winter and would like to remind users that excavated stumps are not allowed in the pile because they are difficult to move and burn. Also in the Billy Creek area, the BLM will burn approximately 30 hand piles in a meadow restoration project.
In northwestern Campbell County near Bitter Creek, the Conservation District and Wyoming State Forestry Division have completed thinning treatments on private lands and BLM will burn hand piles on about 130 acres.
Burning may begin in November 2017 and continue through April 2018. BLM conducts all prescribed burn projects in accordance with approved burn plans.
For more information, please contact the Buffalo Field Office front desk at (307) 684-1100 or Jennifer Walker at (307) 684-1164.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
