East Eagle Prescribed Fire Project planned on the Clifton Ranger District
Firefighters plan to conduct prescribed fire operations on the Clifton Ranger District beginning September 23 through October 30, 2024, weather permitting. The East Eagle project area is 2,506 acres and is 30 miles north of Clifton, AZ. The East Eagle prescribed fire is within the San Carlos Tribal Forest Protection Project which is one of the initial high-priority landscapes selected under the Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy. These landscape treatments are a cooperative effort with the San Carlos Apache Tribe and includes the National Forest Foundation, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Mule Deer Foundation, and the Salt River Project.
The boundaries of the project are along Forest Road 8369 to the east, Forest Road 704 to the north, Clifton District/San Carlos Reservation boundary to the west, and Four Drag Ranch to the south. Air quality monitors have been placed in Alpine, AZ and Luna, NM. More information on air quality is available at https://www.airnow.gov/.
Smoke will be visible from portions of U.S. Highway 191 and the community along Eagle Creek. Burn Boss Joe Names said, “We are making every effort to keep people, including private landowners near the project, informed of the project before, during and after the prescribed fire.”
Landscape treatments on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests align with the Forest Service's 10- year Wildfire Crisis Strategy, which aims to increase the use of fire on the landscape and other treatments to improve forest health.
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