Jan . 2 , 2024
   Contact:Tim Nyander
   Utilities Director
   479 - 575 - 8386
   tnyander@fayetteville - ar . gov
   Prescribed burn planned at Woolsey Wet Prairie Sanctuary
   FAYETTEVILLE , Ark . – The City of Fayetteville will be conducting a prescribed burn on Wednesday , Jan . 3 , at Woolsey Wet Prairie Sanctuary , a wetland mitigation site located immediately north of the West Side Wastewater Treatment
    
   Plant at 15 S . Broyles Ave .  
   The burn is scheduled to begin around 1 p . m . and will take two to four hours to complete . The burn will be on a 64 . 5 - acre tract that borders
    
   the west side of Broyles Road , to the east of 54th Avenue and to the south of Persimmon Street .
   The purpose of the prescribed burn is for adaptive management of the wetland plant community within
    
   the City’s wetland mitigation site . In 2005 , baseline monitoring identified 47
    
   plant species at the site . As of the end of the 2023 growing season , 502 plant species have been
    
   observed , 11 of which are species of special concern tracked by the Arkansas Natural Heritage
    
   Commission .
   A containment line has been established to maintain the fire within the designated burn area . Members of the public are welcome to attend the prescribed burn; however , bystanders will be required to stay behind the containment line . This will be the seventeenth prescribed burn at Woolsey Wet Prairie Sanctuary since 2008 . Being a prairie grassland/forb fire , there will not be long - term smoldering as occurs with forest fires .
   Ozark
    
   Ecological Restoration Inc . will conduct
    
   the burn under supervision of the City’s environmental consultant . The Fayetteville and Farmington fire departments will be notified and on
    
   standby to assist , if needed . After completion of the prescribed burn , the burn crew will
    
   assure that all sparks and embers have been fully extinguished .
   For more information , contact Utilities Director Tim Nyander at 479 - 575 - 8386 or
   tnyander@fayetteville - ar . gov
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