WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:

TWIN FALLS, Idaho - In a proactive step to reduce wildfire risk and invest in healthy, resilient public lands, the Bureau of Land Management Twin Falls District in south-central Idaho, partnering with the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, will conduct aerial herbicide treatments across approximately 27,135 acres of lands managed by the BLM Jarbidge and Shoshone field offices within Blaine, Elmore, Minidoka, Owyhee and Twin Falls counties. Treatments are scheduled to begin the second week of September and continue through October 2026, depending on weather, wildfire activity and other operational conditions.

The treatments a...