The following press release was sent out by the Bitterroot National Forest:
The Darby/Sula Ranger District is planning, weather permitting, to implement spring prescribed burning projects beginning this week. Fire crews are planning on conducting a 200-acre prescribed burn tomorrow east of Sula.
The burn is scheduled to start around 1:00 p.m. up the East Fork, north of East Fork Road and west of Guide Creek. Fire crews from the Darby/Sula, West Fork, and Stevensville Ranger Districts along with Trapper Creek Job Corps are participating in the burn along with several engines. Smoke will likely be visible from East Fork Road.
Tomorrow’s burn is one of several prescribed fire projects planned this spring on the forest totaling approximately 2,500 acres. Over the next several weeks, fire crews will be conducting low intensity, understory burns to reduce hazardous fuels and the risk of tree mortality from an unplanned, or catastrophic wildfire or competition from undesirable species. Treatment areas include: