This burn started in May and ignitions were stopped in late June but smoke from interior pockets of fuel burning off have continued to be observed. Stanislaus national forest has made the decision to resume ignitions under favorable conditions.
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If the conditions are right and in their prescription Burn It. We have not had conditions that favored burning after the month of June till almost December in a long time. The STF has been doing a lot of burning this year. Give it a couple years and that part of the forest they burned is going to look great. So many benefits that come out of this.
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They’ve been burning along the 108 corridor for the last 10-12 years. Some of it is ready for retreatment already with all the buckbrush that has come back
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That is very true! I lived in Twain Harte for 25 years now in Sonora. That’s one of the problem with fuel breaks is you have to keep them up. If you look on some of old CDF Admin maps, there are shaded fuel breaks on them and many are not. Problem is they have had no treatment in many, many years. I used one on the Telegraph Fire in MMU.
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Dry Meadow Prescribed Burn Update, PINECREST, CA (8:00 p.m., August 3, 2023)
Today, crews completed 50 acres within the prescription units. This makes for a total of 156 acres completed this week.
Driving along Highway 108 in the evening and at night you may see glowing from the embers of the prescribed burn. Please be assured crews and engines are on site 24 hours a day and will continue to patrol all night.
Test ignitions will begin again tomorrow morning as conditions allow.
The units are located approximately 6 miles northwest of Pinecrest, along Forest Road 5N02, in the vicinity of Dry Meadow Fire Station.
Smoke is visible from Highway 108. Please don’t report it as a wildfire.
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Dry Meadow Prescribed Burn FINAL UPDATE PINECREST, CA (4 p.m., August 6, 2023)
Crews are focusing on mop-up operations with no new ignitions planned.
The units are located approximately 6 miles northwest of Pinecrest, along Forest Road 5N02, in the vicinity of Dry Meadow Fire Station.
Smoke is visible from Highway 108. Please don’t report it as a wildfire.
This will be the final update for the Dry Meadows prescribed burn pending any new information.
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Looks like it’s kicking up again.
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oh yeah… they’re starting again. let me find the email
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North Beardsley rx burn.
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Crews on the Summit/Mi-Wok Ranger Begin RX Operations in Dry Meadows and Beardsley Burn Units.
SONORA, California, September 28, 2023 – Crews with the Stanislaus National Forest’s Summit/Mi-Wok Ranger district have begun prescribed burn operations on both the Dry Meadows and Beardsley burn units.
Crews are looking to burn 92 acres on the Dry Meadows units with active operations completing Friday, September 29. Flowing active burning crews will maintain a presence on the fire ground as the prescribed fire continues to burn down. Crews will look to burn up to 1000 acres total on the Beardsley unit targeting up to 100 acres a day as long as conditions remain favorable.
Assigned to the Dry Meadows Unit will be two engines and a water tender and that will increase to a total of three engines, a water tender and an Interagency Hotshot Crew from the Los Padres National Forest.
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Fixed wing from Columbia went out there about two hours ago. Tankers came back but 404 and the helitanker are out there now.
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Put a good show on with the up canyon winds.
https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=37.8840_-120.0136_8&id=Axis-Strawberry
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