Fire managers from the Pikes Peak Rangers District are planning a 460-acre prescribed burn within the Rainbow Gulch area located west of Rampart Reservoir and west of Forest Service Road 300 in El Paso County.
The ranger district says that the burn will begin the week of September 22 and continue for two days, pending required approvals, resources, moisture levels and proper weather conditions.
The Rainbow Gulch project consists of 720 acres, and since 2021, fire managers and contractors have reduced fuels in three phases:
- fuels management treatments
- including mechanical and hand thinning
- prescribed fire
Phase one consisted of the mechanical removal of timber across 353 acres to thin the forest and prepare the area for prescribed burns…