The Bureau of Land Management’s Phoenix District is planning prescribed burning operations to burn cut and piled brush from public lands in Yavapai County near Skull Valley and Yarnell. Burning may occur over multiple days through February as conditions allow.
BLM fire personnel will burn juniper piles cut from 50 acres of public lands about three miles east of Skull Valley. They will also burn piles from 30 acres of public lands about one mile south of Yarnell east of State Route 89. Thinning and burning juniper that has encroached into grasslands helps open wildlife corridors,...