{"id":27627,"date":"2026-03-08T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27627\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:19:17","slug":"prescribed-fires-to-begin-at-croatan-national-forest-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27627\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescribed fires to begin at Croatan National Forest this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern residents may encounter smoke as prescribed burns are set to begin in the Croatan National Forest this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The burns aim to reduce overgrown vegetation and help protect infrastructure, habitats, and natural resources from wildfires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Depending on the weather, fire officials hope to continue this work over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warning signs will be in place near burning sites, with closures set for nearby roads. Those will reopen when officials deem the area safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Notifications for prescribed burning will be posted to the national forest\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfsnc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfsnc\">Facebook page<\/a> on the day of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; New Bern residents may encounter smoke as prescribed burns are set to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,16720,16721,16722,16719,2036,8252,16727,16731,16728,117,107,118,16723,16725,16724,16729,16730,16732,16726,105],"class_list":["post-27627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-burn","tag-burning","tag-burns","tag-croatan-national-forest","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-forest","tag-ignition","tag-national-forest","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-north-carolina","tag-prescribed","tag-prescribed-fire","tag-prescribed-fires","tag-road","tag-roads","tag-smoke","tag-wildfire","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116193995162688307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}