Prescribed Burn for the Bley Property
The burn area in question is on the Bley property located just East of Hiram, MO on County Road 224.
The landowner is Kevin Bley of St. Louis County, MO.
The burn area is a pie shaped ten-acre plot located on the West side of a two hundred acre tract. It is located on a slight grade near the top of a rolling hill. The west side of the property has a gravel drive approximately ten feet wide. The area north of the burn area will have a dozed logging road roughly fifteen feet wide. North of the logging road, will have a cleared food plot of land approximately twenty to thirty feet beyond the logging road. The southeast side of the burn will have a single width dozer break.
Both the north and the southeast flanks will have primary and secondary firebreaks established prior to the fire. A backfire and flank fires will be burnt prior to the setting of the head fire.
The Loundes Fire Chief, Chief Hornbuckle, has been advised of our attention to burn, and will be contacted prior to the burn. Chief Hornbuckle stated he would have a brush truck with volunteer firefighters present to assist along with five or six paid firefighters from the St. Louis area. Don Bley, an assistant fire chief from St. Louis County, will provide Indian pumpers, fire beaters and rakes. Accompanying the above mentioned individuals will be two to four men experienced with prescribed burns with the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Missouri Native Plant Society.
All of the adjacent land near the property line of the Bley property is open woods.
No homes should be affected from smoke in any direction, the nearest home being at least one half mile away to the west.
Ed Meloy, a local contractor from the area, will doze the logging road two blades wide north of the burn area. The area just north of the logging road will be a bare soil firebreak cleared twenty to thirty feet for planting. Ed will doze a single dozer width firebreak on the southeast side of the burn area.
In addition to the firebreaks on the north and southeast flanks, a backfire will be set to provide a firebreak of more than thirty feet surrounding the burn area.
See maps and drawing for the burn area location as well as the topography map showing elevation.
The burn area in question is on the Bley property located just East of Hiram, MO on County Road 224.
The landowner is Kevin Bley of St. Louis County, MO.
The burn area is a pie shaped ten-acre plot located on the West side of a two hundred acre tract. It is located on a slight grade near the top of a rolling hill. The west side of the property has a gravel drive approximately ten feet wide. The area north of the burn area will have a dozed logging road roughly fifteen feet wide. North of the logging road, will have a cleared food plot of land approximately twenty to thirty feet beyond the logging road. The southeast side of the burn will have a single width dozer break.
Both the north and the southeast flanks will have primary and secondary firebreaks established prior to the fire. A backfire and flank fires will be burnt prior to the setting of the head fire.
The Loundes Fire Chief, Chief Hornbuckle, has been advised of our attention to burn, and will be contacted prior to the burn. Chief Hornbuckle stated he would have a brush truck with volunteer firefighters present to assist along with five or six paid firefighters from the St. Louis area. Don Bley, an assistant fire chief from St. Louis County, will provide Indian pumpers, fire beaters and rakes. Accompanying the above mentioned individuals will be two to four men experienced with prescribed burns with the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Missouri Native Plant Society.
All of the adjacent land near the property line of the Bley property is open woods.
No homes should be affected from smoke in any direction, the nearest home being at least one half mile away to the west.
Ed Meloy, a local contractor from the area, will doze the logging road two blades wide north of the burn area. The area just north of the logging road will be a bare soil firebreak cleared twenty to thirty feet for planting. Ed will doze a single dozer width firebreak on the southeast side of the burn area.
In addition to the firebreaks on the north and southeast flanks, a backfire will be set to provide a firebreak of more than thirty feet surrounding the burn area.
See maps and drawing for the burn area location as well as the topography map showing elevation.
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