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North End Joins South at IFPL III Beginning Monday Morning
Release Date: Jul 29, 2014
Prairie City Ranger District and Blue Mountain Ranger District will move to IFPL III starting at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Emigrant Creek Ranger District is already at IFPL III. Fire Danger rating is High on the north end and Very High on the south end.
On Monday, Aug. 4 the following fire restrictions will be in place on the entire Malheur National Forest:
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Campfires allowed only in developed recreation sites described at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3809694.pdf. This restriction applies to building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal briquettes or stove fire except for liquefied or bottled gas stoves and heaters.
- Campfires must be attended at all times, and completely extinguished prior to leaving.
- Persons with campfires are required to have an axe, shovel, and one gallon of water in their possession (except in specified developed recreation sites).
- Wood burning stoves equipped with a chimney that is at least five feet in length with a spark-arresting screen consisting of quarter-inch mesh hardware cloth are allowed in developed recreation sites.
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No internal combustions engine operation, except motor vehicles. Chainsaw use is prohibited. Electrical generators operated under the following conditions are allowed:
- in the center of an area at least 10 feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material, or;
- when fully contained within a pickup truck bed that is devoid of all flammable material, or;
- when factory installed in a recreational vehicle and the generator exhaust discharge is located in the center of an area at least 10 feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material;
- Smoking allowed only in enclosed vehicles and buildings, developed recreation sites or cleared areas.
- No off-road/off-trail vehicle travel or travel on roads not cleared of standing grass or other flammable material; no vehicle travel on those FS roads where access has been impeded or blocked by earthen berm, logs, boulders, barrier, barricade or gate or as otherwise identified in the Fire Order.