Prescribed Burns: Vina Plains Area, Nature Conservancy and Dye Creek Preserve

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Prescribed Burns: Vina Plains Area, Nature Conservancy and Dye Creek Preserve

Training control burns to be held

VINA - In an effort to prepare for fire season and to control medusa head and yellow star thistle, invasive weeds that plague ranchers and conservationists alike, CalFire will team up with The Nature Conservancy and Dye Creek Preserve to do training control bums in the next two weeks, weather permitting.

CalFire will instruct 25 employees how to use fire to fight fire by utilizing various firing techniques and control methodology. The students will apply the learned techniques during live fire training.
The Nature Conservancy will benefit from the bum by reducing the medusa head grass and star thistle and allowing non-invasive grasses to return for better cattle grazing.

June 3 and June 4 - The plan is to bum approximately 350 acres of grass in the Vina Plains Area at Rowles and Highway 99E.

June 10 - The plan is to bum approximately another 350 acres of grass in the Vina Plains Area at Rowles and Highway 99E.

June 11 - The plan is to bum approximately 300 acres on Nature Conservancy and Dye Creek Preserve. All the projected bums are based on weather permitting.

CalFire is conducting the bums with the cooperating land managers under the Vegetation Management Program, a state-sponsored cost sharing program to encourage prescribed fires on private property.

More Information: Adam Wyman, VMP Coordinator for CAL FIRE Tehama Glenn Unit, 528-5199.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009