Over the last twelve months, our focus, by dint
of their scale, has been on landscape level vegetation management projects.
With grant 14 USFS-SFA 0052 we have constructed 172 acres of shaded fuel break
along 7.5 miles of the Warrenella Truck across the San Vicente Redwoods from
Empire Grade down to the coastal prairies north of Davenport. In collaboration
with State Parks and funded by California State Responsibility Area Fee funding
we built another 22 acres of shaded fuel break along the Fall Creek Truck Trail
in Henry Cowell State Park from Alba Road, just below Empire Grade, down
towards Felton. Combined, the fuel breaks move us toward our goal of bisecting
the firescape of Ben Lomond Mountain. While grant funding is foundational, we
wouldn’t have been able to do so much without 225 days of work by Ben Lomond
Camp Crews and over 2,100 hours of community volunteer time monitoring them as
they work. Our deepest thanks to all who
contributed.
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