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Prescribed burn at Columbia Wildlife Management Area to begin on Feb. 8
KNOWLTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (Warren County) – A prescribed burn at the Columbia Wildlife Management Area in Knowlton Township is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Feb. 8, according to New Jersey Fish & Wildlife officials.
The Fish and Wildlife’s Bureau of Land Management will be conducting habitat management at the fields off of Linaberry Road at the Columbia Wildlife Management Area, officials said.
Working collaboratively with the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, several large brush piles of nonnative vegetation will be burned, beginning Feb. 8, weather dependent, to make room for native habitat plantings, officials said.