PRESS RELEASE
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning pile burns in the White River Field Office between Dec. 5, 2023, and March 30, 2024.
The 454-acre project area is in the Piceance Basin, approximately 25 miles SW of Meeker on BLM public lands in Rio Blanco County.
The pile burning will reduce heavy fuels created from chaining operations that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Additional piles from a thinning project designed to…