Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project

☑️ Resilient forest - our dry ponderosa and mixed conifer forests NEED low intensity fire to "clean up" hazardous fuel loads and historical had naturally occuring (lightening or sometimes Indigenous burning) low intensity fire every 10-25 years.
☑️ Protect communities - Prescribed fire can help create fire breaks on the forest, reduce intensity of wildfires and ultimately lower wildfire risk to our communities.
☑️ Protect wildfire response teams - lower intensity fires are safer and easier for firefighters to fight!
☑️ Supporting the work even if it means a few smokey days, the forest service works closely with Deschutes County Public health to limit smoke impacts while still getting the important work done. Preparation and planning goes a long way in limiting your exposure to smoke. Check out their website for more info!

Checking in from the Sisters Prescribed fire today! So much great science and data driven work happening out here to protect our communities from megafires and restore our forest to healthy historic norms.

Quick facts from Jaimie:
🔥 Prescribed fire doesn't happen without the perfect conditions, specialists are constantly monitoring wind, humidity, temperature and fire activity to make sure we get the work done with as little smoke impact as possible.

🔥 Prescribed fire is highly managed and very rarely gets out of control with 60 specialists on hand for this 244 acre burn.

🔥 Some smoke happens! The smoke is typically the worst between 12a-5a and will disperse as temps increase. Thanks for hanging in there and planning accordingly 🤙

🔥 Sign up for text alerts to learn when and where prescribed fire is happening: text COFIRE to 888-777