Did you see the smoky air Tuesday in the Shreveport-Bossier area? It appears that a controlled burn in Bossier Parish was the cause.

A representative with Bossier Parish Fire District No. 1 confirmed that a controlled burn was being conducted by a landowner in Bossier Parish.

"A logging company has been clearing about 40 acres of land around the 500 block of Fullwood and burning the cleared piles. Fullwood runs off of Winfield Road about a mile west of Highway 157," a post on the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office Facebook page states. "The logging company has equipment on scene to manage the controlled burn."

Bossier Parish Fire District No. 1 covers the U.S. 80 corridor in the Haughton-Princeton area.

The wind Tuesday was out of the east.

A representative with the 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs office said that the burn was not being conducted by Barksdale Air Force Base, and that the smoke had not interfered with the base's operations.

While Caddo and Webster parishes were already under burn bans, Bossier Parish was not until late Tuesday afternoon.

Bossier Parish Police Jury President Bob Brotherton issued a burn ban on Tuesday "acting on concerns expressed by fire chiefs of the parish rural fire districts," according to a release from the parish.