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Lake County Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project - Phase 1

Funding Source:  CAL FIRE Fire Prevention Grant Program; California Climate Investments (CCI)

Project Description 
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.

Our project 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.

Budget: $3M
April 2020-March 2024
Completed Fuel Reduction Projects
  • 150 acres of fuel break maintenance along the Mt. Konocti Interface,
  • Construction of the Scotts Valley Fuel Break, west of the City of Lakeport,
  • Construction of the Davis Fuel Break; east of the City of Clearlake
  • Four years of funding for the South Lake Fire Safe Councilchipping program.
Workforce Development
This project provides funding for the Tribal Ecological Restoration Alliance (TERA).
Planning Future Projects
CLERC is completing a Regional Prioritization Plan for Lake County in an effort to streamline future community-wide landscape scale projects.
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Konocti Interface project fuelbreaks

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Partners
US Forest Service (USFS)
US Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Robinson Rancheria Pomo Indians of California
South Lake Fire Safe Council
CAL FIRE
Lake County Resource Conservation District (RCD)
Lake County Community Risk Reduction Authority (RRA)
Dogwood Springs Forestry

Want to be involved in future projects?
CLERC is building a network of partners to help implement this project and others in the future.  Please contact us if you'd like to help out.