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Buncombe County’s burn ban will lift Nov. 30 because of lower temperatures, higher humidity and lighter winds.
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The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan , which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha).
A controlled burn or prescribed burn (Rx burn) is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape. The purpose could be for forest management , ecological restoration , land clearing or wildfire fuel management.
Bismarck was founded by European-Americans in 1872 on the east bank of the Missouri River. It has been North Dakota's capital city since 1889, when the state was created from the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union. [10] Bismarck is across the river from Mandan, named after a Native American tribe of the area. [11]
The burn ban order was issued by the Erie County Executive Brenton Davis on Monday. The ban will be lifted on Nov. 18 unless it is extended through further resolution. More: Large fire breaks out ...
A 10-acre woodland fire was reported in Wayne County. Burning is not advised.
The county was created on January 8, 1873, by the Dakota Territory legislature, using territory that had not previously been included in any county. The county organization was not completed at that time, but the new county was not attached to any other county for administrative or judicial matters.