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Last Updated  12/05/2023 2:20 PM

Date Started 08/19/2023 1:25 PM

Date Contained 08/30/2023 3:00 PM (Active for 11 days)

Location InformationAliso Park Road and Foothill Road, New Cuyama 

Latitude / Longitude [34.9190169,-119.73328]

Admin UnitLos Padres National Forest Service 

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The publication includes decision trees to help landowners and resource managers crosswalk projects to permits.
Planning and Permitting Forest Fuel-Reduction Projects on Private Lands in California

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The purpose of the block grant is to allow prospective grantees the ability to provide a program of financial and technical forestry assistance to nonindustrial forest landowners, where the grantee serves as the supervising entity, receives the grant from CAL FIRE and then provides outreach and/or technical/financial assistance to landowners so they can conduct forest restoration or management activities on their property. 

CAL FIRE's Wildfire Resilience team seeks to maintain and enhance the resilience of California’s small non-industrial private forestland owners to promote healthy resilient forests throughout the state by supporting a diverse set of projects designed to interact with landowners.
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Funding of forest improvement practices including but not limited to tree and brush thinning, tree release, pruning, site preparation and tree planting, follow up work to support tree growth, and/or slash disposal.
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The California Forest Stewardship Program is a collaborative project of the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and USDA Forest Service. The Placer Resource Conservation District (RCD), UC Cooperative Extension Forestry, Northern California Society for American Foresters, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), and many other organizations and agencies are partners in projects and programs sponsored and supported by the California Stewardship Program.

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Classification of all lands within State Responsibility Areas into fire hazard severity zones is required by law. Therefore, the fire hazard severity zone designations and accompanying maps must follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and be approved by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL). The regulation can be found in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR) section 1280.01 and entitled “Fire Hazard Severity Zones in the SRA”.  


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Vegetation: Fire hazard considers the potential vegetation over a 30- to 50- year time horizon. Vegetation is “fuel” for a wildfire and it may vary over time.
Topography: Fire typically burns more quickly and intensely up steep slopes.
Climate: Fire moves faster and is more intense under hot, dry, and windy conditions.
Crown Fire Potential: Under extreme conditions, fires burn to the top of trees and tall brush.
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After the Valley Fire destroyed Harbin Hot Springs near Middletown, CAL FIRE's Forest Health Program saw a unique opportunity to restore the land and protect the community. 

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Fuels Reduction

Grantee:    Mariposa County Resource Conservation District
FY 18/19 Grant Amount:  $2,068,465
Acres of Fuel Reduction:  3,660
Tons of Biomass:  38,448
GHG Benefit (MT CO2e):  38,953    
Forest resilience treatments helped to save the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park from the Washburn Fire in July of 2022. A partnership that includes the Mariposa County Resource Conservation District, the National Park Service and local Tribal Forest crews had completed important fuels reduction work that reduced the fire’s severity and helped firefighters protect the invaluable trees. Grant activities included removal of roadside hazard and downed trees, fuels reduction, and transportation of the woody debris to local biomass facilities. 

Cultural Burning & Fuels Reduction

Grantee:    Humboldt County Resource Conservation District
FY 19/20 Grant Amount:  $4,315,392
Acres of Fuel Reduction:  1,159
Acres of Prescribed Burn:  1,313
GHG Benefit (MT CO2e):  57,625
Humboldt County Resource Conservation District is working with the Yurok Tribe and Western Rivers Conservancy to implement forest management activities on 2,400 acres of Yurok ancestral lands. The collaborative project will reduce fuel loads, retain the healthiest and largest trees, allow the return of cultural burning to the landscape, improve wildlife and fisheries habitat, and create employment opportunities for Yurok Tribe members. Read More 

Tribal Workforce Forest Restoration

Grantee:    Fire Safe Council of San Diego
FY 19/20 Grant Amount:  $4,994,675
Acres of Fuel Reduction:  1,059
Number of Trees Planted:  41,475
GHG Benefit (MT CO2e): 60,895
Smoke and Fire in British Columbia
The smoke drifted, at times, into parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States, triggering air quality concerns in several states.
One of the most menacing fires burned southeast of Fort Nelson and a nearby First Nation community, home to a combined 3,400 people. The fire grew rapidly after igniting on May 10, exacerbated by dry conditions and high winds from a passing cold front. Canadian authorities issued evacuation orders for both communities later that day.
“Due to the aggressive and extreme fire behavior, we strongly recommend that people avoid travel in and around Fort Nelson,” said British Columbia’s Wildfire Service Director of Provincial Operations Cliff Chapman in a video update on Facebook. “The fuels are as dry as we have ever seen. The wind is going to be sustained, and it is going to push the fire toward the community,” he added.
To the north of Fort Nelson, several other large fires each charred tens of thousands of hectares. Several of these fires were listed as “holdover” blazes that likely smoldered beneath the snow all winter before reemerging, according to data posted by the British Columbia Wildfire Service. Such fires lingered in vegetation that had been parched by a multi-year drought, classified as extreme by the North American Drought Monitor.
Analysis of May daily intensity & estimated emissions of Canada?? #wildfires shows incredible intensity over the last few days leading to highest May total for British Columbia in 22-year #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset based on MODIS?? active fire obs https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-fire-emissions-gfas?tab=overview https://twitter.com/m_parrington/status/1789632457517531453— Mark Parrington (@m_parrington) May 12, 2024 
The situation echoes 2023, when intense fires also burned in British Columbia in May. Daily fire intensity and carbon emissions from fires in the province have been unusually high so far in May 2024, according to data shared by Mark Parrington, an atmospheric scientist with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).