Slash piles burning at English Point, Canfield Mountain

The Coeur d Alene River Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will be burning piles associated with the Kootenai Fuel Reduction Project.

Starting this week, will work to burn slash piles on Canfield Mountain and English Point from over 400 acres of pruning, thinning and brushing work completed earlier this year.

Hazardous fuels reduction in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) comprises National Forest System lands adjacent to private property and the protection of emergency services communication infrastructure on Canfield Butte.

Hunting may be inadvertently disturbed by prescribed fire activity.

This burning activity should have minimal, localized smoke impacts, and will not interfere with travel on-Forest. Smoke will be highly visible from Coeur d’Alene, especially near Canfield Mountain and the English Point Recreation Area.

The Kootenai Fuel Reduction project is a multi-year project that will treat approximately 3,000 acres in the WUI of Kootenai County. Fuel reduction work helps limit the spread of uncontrolled wildfires that can threaten values such as property and structures on both public and private land.

For more information on this project, please contact the Coeur d’Alene River Ranger Station at (208) 664-2318.