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A one-day prescribed burn closes the BLUE Trail at the preserve on East Knight Griffin Road.
The Hillsborough County Conservation and Environmental Lands Management Department will do a prescribed burn today, Oct. 22.
The burn takes place at Lower Green Swamp Preserve, 3540 East Knight Griffin Road, near Plant City. The county says the burn will last one day.
The county gives the purpose as ecological restoration and site maintenance.
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The BLUE Trail will close for the duration of the burn.
For answers to prescribed fire questions, visit HCFL.gov/RxFire. Contact details are in the county notice at the source link.
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