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Photo: Burning the slash

Bureau of Land Management finishes up prescribed burn

Jerry McBride

Herald Photo Editor

Friday, Feb 9, 2024 2:04 PM MT

Updated Friday, Feb 9, 2024 4:41 PM MT

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The Bureau of Land Management conducts a prescribed burn on Tuesday in the Grandview area northwest of Mercy Hospital. The BLM burned just under a 1,000 piles of slash that had been piled up after a fuels reduction treatment project on 148 acres. The BLM will come back in the spring and sped a mixture of native grasses and flowering plants seed and then monitor and treat non-native grasses and plants that might pop up. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
The Bureau of Land Management conducts a prescribed burn on Tuesday in the Grandview area northwest of Mercy Hospital. The BLM burned just under a 1,000 piles of slash that had been piled up after a fuels reduction treatment project on 148 acres. The BLM will come back in the spring and sped a mixture of native grasses and flowering plants seed and then monitor and treat non-native grasses and plants that might pop up. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride

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