The Forest Service is planning a prescribed burn Wednesday on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
The agency plans to burn 147 acres on the northern end of 25 Mesa Road, also known as the Delta-Nucla road.
Lee Ann Goupe is a spokeswoman with the Forest Service.
"This is an area where an Environmental Assessment was done and this is part of those prescribed treatments designed to enhance wildlife habitat, reduce fuels and reintroduce fire into that ecosystem," Goupe says.
She says the burn area is uninhabited, but the Forest Service has altered nearby home owners and hunters about the fire.
Goupe says the agency had to get a smoke permit from the state to conduct the prescribed burn.