Parks Canada has announced plans to start a prescribed fire in the Lake Audy and Strathclair Trail area of Riding Mountain National Park.
Prescribed fire operations will take place over the next two months, as weather and environmental conditions allow.
Officials say early spring operations will involve treating grasslands and aspen parklands to form guards, followed by treating boreal mixed-wood forests later this spring.
While the park will remain open during the prescribed fire operations, some areas will be closed for short periods of time to ensure staff and visitor safety.
Those areas include the Lake Audy Bison Enclosure, the Lake Audy Campground Day Use and horse corral areas, as well as the Lake Audy road from 61A to the district station.
Closures will also be in place at times for Strathclair Trail, parts of Central Trail, Kinnis Creak, and Minnedosa and Vermillion River backcountry campsites.
