Farmers Burn Fields On Cda Reservation

Thu., Sept. 7, 2000

From Staff

Farmers who lease land on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation torched bluegrass and wheat fields for the first time in weeks on Wednesday. Growers burned about 1,500 acres on the reservation, according to Bob Bostwick, press secretary for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

Farmers there are expected to burn a total of 22,000 to 26,000 acres, Bostwick said, and had only burned a few hundred acres before a burn ban started Aug. 15.

Growers on the Rathdrum Prairie did not burn on Wednesday, according to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.

Meteorologists were unable to gauge wind conditions due to low cloud cover, DEQ’s Dan Redline said. Growers also cited fields wet from recent rains as reasons they didn’t burn, Redline said.

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