Lomakatsi has received clearance from Oregon Department of Forestry to conduct controlled pile burning on private land near Holton Creek Road west of City of Talent. Up to 37 acres of piles will be burned today. Operations in the area may continue through the week as conditions allow.

This effort is within the West Bear All-Lands Restoration Project, a project of Rogue Forest Partners, to reduce the risk of severe wildfire to communities and ecosystems in the wildland urban interface west of Bear Creek and the I-5 corridor, from Talent to Jacksonville. Learn more at www.rogueforestpartners.org.