Bishop Creek Proposed Prescribed Fire
Lower Avalanche Creek – Unit E – Winter 2012
Yosemite fire managers are planning a prescribed fire in the Lower Avalanche Creek (Unit E), of the larger Bishop Creek prescribed fire complex. The unit is currently within fire prescription due to a drier than average winter. The project is dependent upon a weather disturbance, with measurable rain, occurring at the end of the burn project. The primary objective of the prescribed fire is to buffer the communities of Yosemite West, El Portal, and the Glacier Point Historical District from unwanted wildfire, by reducing an over accumulation of forest fuels. Approximately half of this unit is within the 1990 Steamboat Fire footprint.
This burn unit is bounded to the east the northeast by the 2009 Grouse Fire and the Glacier Point Road, and to the west by the Wawona Road. Fire Mangers have framed the perimeter of this burn unit with last summer’s 1,068 acre Avalanche Fire, other prescribed fires and forest mechanical thinning projects along the Wawona Road. The project is at the 5500 to 6200’ elevation, on a west aspect.
Smoke, which can affect health, is always a factor in the decision making process to conduct any prescribed burn. An approved smoke management plan will be in place with the Mariposa County Air Pollution Control District (APCD). In addition the Tuolumne, San Joaquin and Great Basin APCDs will be advised of this project.
More details will be made available when a more exact date is determined.
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Bishop Creek Proposed Prescribed Fire
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