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Piceance prescribed burns underway

PRESS RELEASE

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning pile burns in the White River Field Office between Jan. 31 and March 30, 2024.

The 415-acre project area is in the Piceance Basin, approximately 25 miles southwest of Meeker on BLM public lands in Rio Blanco County.

The pile burning will reduce pinyon-juniper slash from a thinning project designed to reduce hazardous fuels near residences, range improvements, as well as electrical and oil and…