The week of June 15, the Karuk Tribe, the Mid Klamath Watershed Council and partners conducted a Prescribed Fire at Morgan Point outside of Happy Camp. Together we completed 63 acres of understory burning over 3 burn periods: Monday June 17th evening burn, Tuesday - Wednesday June 18-19th night burns. We then immediately transitioned to what is called in Karuk íship "to extinguish a fire". There were crews on site each day to continue to extinguish any smoke or heat until 3 days after any heat / smoke was detected. There were no spot fires outside of our units, fire behavior was excellent with good fuels consumption and minimal single tree torching. We had excellent staffing, extensive hose lays, portable water tanks, pumps, water tenders, fire engines etc. etc. This burn was conducted with a CalFire burn permit, approved burn plans and smoke management plans. We recognize we created some smoke that impacted Happy Camp particularly Tue.-Thurs. mornings before the inversion lifted each day. Our intent was to have this smoke impact be very short lasting. This burn was conducted on private land, after this property had fuels reduction projects completed (manual thinning, burn piles and piles burned). This is done purposefully for community wildfire protection, forest restoration and fire resilience, as well as training and building local workforce capacity.

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Morgan Point Prescribed Fire- Summary and Photos