The Valley Fire has come and gone but it has left a burn scar over a large area in the Boise Foothills. Now Idaho Fish and Game is ready to begin the long road to recovery.
- The Valley fire has left a large burn scar along the Boise foothills
- Over 6,000 acres of Fish and Game land was burned
- The agency has a plan to start the long recovery to restore habitat
( Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
“The first thing we did when we got up here is what do we do with our equipment.” Ann Moser is a Wildlife Biologist for Idaho Fish and Game and remembers the first day after the Valley Fire broke out near the Boise River Wildlife Management Area off of Highway 21. A little over six thousand acres of Fish and Game land burned, land whose habitat is crucial for wildlife.
It may look like a field you would see on a farm anywhere in Idaho, but Fish and Game uses this field to see what works and what doesn’t when they try to control vegetation after a fire…