Prescribed fire at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge

 

Last updated 3/12/2015 at 9:58am



This spring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge may conduct prescribed burns.

Depending on weather conditions, burning could occur sometime between March and mid-May. Prescribed burning activities should have little to no impact on access to the majority of Refuge public use areas.

These burns will accomplish Refuge management objectives for; improving wildlife habitat, reducing potential wildfire fuels by decreasing hazardous accumulations of vegetation and forest debris, and decreasing the number of unhealthy and overstocked stands of ponderosa pine s...



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