Let your voice be heard! If you feel you have been affected by smoke from grass seed field burning, it's time to let your voice be heard! Call these numbers each time you are affected:
The Idaho Department of Agriculture Smoke Complaint Line
1-800-345-1007
The Environmental Protection Agency/Region 10
1-800-424-4372
Idaho Governor James Risch
1-208-334-2100
And always contact your local physician if you feel your health has been impacted.
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New Sources for Field Burning in Idaho
Smoke Complaint Hotline:
800-345-1007
This number is for any smoke events impacting you from either state or tribal lands.
It can also be used to hear burn call information for both state lands and Nez Perce tribal lands in the Camas Prairie by using the phone menu. This is helpful if you don't have Internet access.
Coeur d'Alene Tribal Contact: Marc Stewart /
208-686-2023 or cell 208-582-3891
Call Marc to get on a daily call list to be alerted to burns in your area. The tribe has said they will notify people whose health is at risk if you call and request to be on this list.
Web Sites
Use these sites to locate burns near you and check on conditions farmers must meet to burn:
For info and maps of state land burns each day, click here.
For information about Coeur d'Alene tribal burning, click here.
This site has very minimal information. It only says whether or not it is a burn day in Kootenai or Benewah counties. It contains no acreage information, no burn locations or acreage amounts.
For information and maps of burns on Nez Perce tribal lands, check
here.
This site will give you a map of all burns with exact locations as well as the size of the burn and expected PM emissions.
"We see
sicker people with more serious problems (during grass burning season)
- it's undeniable. The industry's attempt to pooh-pooh this is like
tobacco companies trying to deny their impact on health."
Dr. David York
Lung Specialist
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
March 23, 1996
"There's just too much at risk to
continue the burning. Grass field burning in North Idaho must stop
and alternative solutions found that will not harm the health of our
citizens."
Dr. Joyce Gilbert
Pediatrician
Sandpoint, Idaho
November 5, 2001
"For too many years this practice
has adversely affected the health of citizens in our community and
in outlying areas. Each summer we have seen our patients with lung
and upper respiratory ailments suffer from the heavy smoke produced
by grass field burning. We are now calling for an immediate end to
this health hazard."
Excerpt from a September 24, 2001 letter
Signed by 30 physicians in
Bonner County, Idaho
