(BUTTE, Mont.) - Travelers to the Marysville area this spring might see a little smoke in the air as the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office conducts a prescribed burn to promote habitat biodiversity.
The planned burn treatment on 500 acres will be done a mile south of Marysville in the Sawmill Gulch and Drumlummon Hill area. The primary objective of the planned burn treatment is to reduce conifers that are expanding into shrub and grassland habitat.
The timing of the burns depends on weather and fuel conditions. Generally, the spring prescribed burning season concludes in June due to vegetation green-up. The prescribed burns will be implemented and closely monitored by fire managers and firefighters from the BLM, the Forest Service and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.
For more information, contact Greg Campbell at the Butte Field Office at (406) 533-7608.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
