The U.S. Forest Service is planning to take advantage of the unusually dry winter conditions to resume prescribed burning in several locations in the Eldorado National Forest.

Between Jan. 10-18 fire management crews are preparing to burn three miles of National Forest Lands located off the Mormon Emigrant Trail. Approximately, 1,100 acres may be burned with a low intensity fire in the vicinity of Brown Rock and Meiss Road.

Fire crews may also manage prescribed fires near Georgetown in the vicinity of Darling Ridge on Jan. 17 or Jan. 18, if weather and air conditions are right.

Smoke from the Mormon Emigrant Trail burn should be visible for quite a distance from the fire.