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HUME, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Over 300 acres successful the Grant Grove country successful Kings Canyon National Park are acceptable to beryllium ignited successful a prescribed pain starting Monday.
According to the National Park Service, occurrence absorption unit program to pain 349 acres implicit six days astatine 2 locations – eastbound of Highway 180, crossed from the Big Stump parking lot, and westbound of the General Grant Tree.
Park officials counsel that immoderate trails whitethorn beryllium temporarily closed during ignitions, including a conception of the Big Stump Trail, the North Grove Loop Trail and a conception of the Grant Grove Day Ride Trail.
Visitors should expect mean fume successful the country and intermittent postulation delays.
The scheduled prescribed burns trim hazardous substance loading and support the earthy occurrence rhythm successful the elephantine sequoia ecosystem of Kings Canyon National Park.
The website states that overmuch of the country surrounding Grant Grove burned severely during the 2015 Rough Fire and the 2021 KNP Complex Fire; however, the Grant Grove country was protected from the worst of those impacts owed to the park’s agelong past of prescribed burning.
According to their website, visitors volition inactive beryllium capable to entree the General Grant Tree. For much information, click here.
