Prepare for more burns
In the next few years, the Inyo National Forest will be doing more prescribed fires (“controlled burns”) such as the Dry Creek burn which occurred Tuesday south of Deadman Summit, as part of its fire prevention efforts.
According to Deb Schweizer, public affairs officer for the Inyo National Forest, 225 acres were burned at a low intensity intended to restore the natural role of fire in the ecosystem.
“The Forest Service policy is that we should always be doing prescribed fire when we can to restore ecosystems and reduce fuels … We do have new leadership and our management is more proactive so we’ve been taking more opportunities than maybe we have in the past couple years, [and] this is good stuff,” Schweizer told the Sheet.
Schweizer also said that the Dry Creek prescribed burn is probably going to be one of the last ones the Forest Service does this summer, because it is starting to get too hot and dry to do such burns.
