Tribes announce prescribed burn
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News from C.T. Camel, CSKT
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribal Fuels Program plans to perform a prescribed burn in the upper Knowles Creek and Little Money Drainages near Perma sometime during the week of April 1-5. Depending on weather, it will most likely be mid-week. The prescribed burn is a large-scale ecosystem maintenance burn intended to reduce natural fuels accumulations, rejuvenate browse conditions for game, and reintroduce the natural process of fire on the landscape. This project is a result of a multi-agency agreement between the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes and the USFS. On the day of these burns the area will be closed to the public. The Clear Creek- 1000 Road and the Clear Creek- 1300 Road will be closed.
The area to be treated is delineated as Unit B, and the entire unit is on CSKT (see attached map). The project area is approximately 5 miles east of the community of Paradise, and approximately 4 miles west of Perma bridge, in the upper reaches of Knowles Creek and Little Money Drainage.
Resource Objectives: restoration of the non-lethal fire regime, woodland and park-like forest structures through prescribed fire treatments, improve Bighorn sheep habitat.
Prescribed Fire Objectives: maintain reduced wildfire risk with periodic understory burns, use understory burning to maintain and/or improve forest health, use understory burning to reduce number of seedlings and saplings.
Any questions regarding this project should be directed to the CSKT Division of Fire (Darrell Clairmont) at 406-676-2550.
