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CHEQUAMEGON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Crews with the U.S. Forest Service headed to the Riley Lake Wildlife Area Monday...

CHEQUAMEGON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Crews with the U.S. Forest Service headed to the Riley Lake Wildlife Area Monday to burn about 209 acres of vegetation. ...

Planned burn at Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest By Chris Conley May 10, 2021 | 6:48 AM PARK FALLS, WI (WSAU-WXPR) – Every spring the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest only has a small window of opportunity to do controlled burns. Prescribed burns can help maintain healthy forests by minimizing the spread of insects, reduce extreme wildfire risk, and improve wildlife habitat. The National Forest is hoping to burn more than 43-hundred acres this spring. 500 of those are in the Riley Lake Wildlife Management Area in Price County. Ken Pemble is a wildlife biologist with the Chequa...

Fire crackles through the dry brush at Riley Lake Wildlife Management Area in Price County. Men in bright yellow shirts and forest green pants carrying red drip torches to light the fire make their way through the knee-high brush. The brown grass quickly blackens as the fire sweeps across the open field on the windy day in the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest. Just the weather needed for a prescribed burn. “Our main is to make is to keep this into a prairie edge type habitat,” said Ken Pemble, a wildlife biologist with the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest. Sharp-tailed grouse Credit...