DENVER (KDVR) — Are you seeing smoke close to Boulder?
The College of Colorado Boulder Police mentioned folks dwelling close to Boulder may see smoke starting as quickly as Monday, Jan. 8.
The U.S. Forest Service Boulder Ranger District mentioned hearth managers are monitoring situations to start pile burning within the Arapaho and Roosevelt Nationwide Forests, and smoke could also be seen throughout operations.
Burning will happen within the following areas:
- Forsythe Space: Two miles southwest of Pinecliffe, east of South Beaver Highway off Emory Highway, La Chula Highway, and Wedgewood Drive
- Forsythe Space: Two miles north of Rollinsville, simply north of Shoshone Highway
- Lump Gulch
- Lump Gulch: South facet of Gilpin Highway, three miles south of Rollinsville on the west facet of Freeway 119
In response to the U.S. Forest Service, pile burning is a form of prescribed hearth, by which firefighters pile and burn forest particles to scale back an space’s threat of wildfire.
