Posted on 04/10/2018 7:45:39 AM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — Fort Huachuca, in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service, will conduct the last prescribed burn of the spring today on the East Range.
The burn will support military training, reduce the risk of wildfires, and maintain the ecological integrity of the fire-adapted ecosystems dependent on recurring fire that benefits forest health.
Hubbard Dropzone will be burned in the morning, and the Dust Devil Dropzone will be burned in the afternoon.
Ignitions should start at about 8:30 a.m., and smoke will be visible throughout the day.
The natural fire regimen in southern Arizona is three to seven years in most upper-Sonoran Desert ecosystems. Before fires were suppressed in this area sometime around the turn of the century, areas such as Fort Huachuca had fire burn across them every three to seven years.
Certain training areas on the installation are burned more often than others, due to the need to support firing-range operations throughout the summer without a chance of sparking a fire.
Regularly conducting prescribed burns in these training areas greatly reduces the risk of fire. Prescribed burns are subject to change due to weather and other contributing factors.
The biggest polluters in the world today, aside from volcanoes, is forest fire.
Yet they continue to burn.
The freaks love to watch it burn. They are called fire bugs within the USFS local staff.
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