Lake County Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project - Phase 1
Funding Source: CAL FIRE Fire Prevention Grant Program; California Climate Investments (CCI)
Project Description Summary |
The project will take place in Lake County, northern CA, at a time when 68% of the county’s land area has burned in the last four years. Hazardous fuel reduction is on everyone’s priority list after four years of breathing wildfire smoke, evacuation, destruction of whole communities, and economic downturn. This project will focus on CAL FIRE’s highest priority project areas where WUI fuel load is at an alarming level. Local professional tree care/forest management contractors will create or maintain 800 acres of fuel breaks to slow or stop a wildfire before it can enter 10 communities protecting 14,300 habitable structures. 50 acres of right of way clearance will be performed along roads in order to provide for safer ingress and egress. 20 acres of fuels reduction will provide defensible space around valuable assets, a Fire Safe Council’s chipping program will be continued, and hazardous fuel will be removed from 200 high priority residential properties within high fire risk communities. All these activities will reduce the risk of wildfire starting, spreading and developing into a catastrophic fire that deposits tons of GHG emissions into the atmosphere including extremely potent black carbon which is also a public health hazard. An established workforce development program for ecological restoration will place a second cohort of students through the program. A prescribed fire TREX event will be hosted in the county so that local practitioners can participate in professional training. Regional prioritization planning will allow prioritization of hazardous fuel reduction projects in the county to be accomplished in Phase 2 of this Project and Phase 2 of the Forest Health Program, Lake County Fire Resilience Project.
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Budget: $3M
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