The Bessey Ranger District’s prescribed burn of around 1,100 acres has resumed today and will continue as conditions allow. The burn area is located roughly 8 miles west of Halsey, Nebraska, within the Chokecherry allotment south of Forest Service Road 203 and west of Forest Service Road 212.

After visiting with a representative of the Forest Service there was a breakdown in communications about postponing the fire from Monday.  There have created a new email contact as well as phone.  They did state that the 9,000 acres to be burned was for all the anticipated spring prescribed fires.