The Bureau of Land Management has banned most fires in Asotin, Garfield, Whitman, and Columbia counties, along with many others, on the property they manage.
They say with rising temperatures, dry and flashy fuels are increasingly susceptible to ignition. They are instituting the restrictions to keep fires to a minimum. 85% of wildfires are human caused.
There are four main bans now in effect:
Smoking is prohibited except while traveling in vehicles on improved roads, in boats on the water, and other designated locations.
Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire or stove fire is illegal now. The exclusion is campfires within provided steel rings at certain campgrounds.
Operating any type off motorized vehicle off developed roadways is against the law now. Parking your vehicle off a roadway must be done in an area barren of flammable materials.
And there are no fireworks allowed on BLM public lands. That also includes exploding targets, metal targets, and firing tracer or incendiary devices.
For more information, you can go to the BLM’s fire restriction web page.v
