CA-SCU San Vicente Redwoods Prescribed Burn

Friday, October 7, 2016

CA-SCU San Vicente Redwoods Prescribed Burn

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San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit San Vicente Redwoods Prescribed Burn

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FELTON – The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) San Mateo – Santa Cruz Unit, in cooperation with Peninsula Open Space Trust, Sempervirens Fund, and Save the Redwoods League will conduct a 5-acre prescribed burn on the San Vicente Redwoods property in northern Santa Cruz County on October 10, 2016. The prescribed burn will be conducted between the hours of 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, but smoke may be noticed in the area for about one day following the burn. The project is being conducted in accordance with a Smoke Management Permit issued by the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District in order to minimize the smoke impacts on surrounding communities.

Resources involved with conducting the burn include 5 engines and 2 fire crews. Approximately 50 personnel will be assigned to this operation.

This burn is being conducted as part of the CAL FIRE Vegetation Management Program and is intended to reduce fuel accumulations in a portion of the shaded fuel break completed by the Bonny Doon Fire Safe Council three years ago, and to provide ecological benefits such as nutrient cycling and recruitment of fire-dependent plant species.

Prescribed vegetation management burns are carefully planned controlled burns that must meet a predefined set of conditions (prescription) in order to achieve ideal fire behavior. No burning takes place if weather and fuel conditions are not within prescription. When optimal conditions are met, trained wildland firefighters manage the burn while monitoring the weather, smoke dispersal, fire behavior and designated fire control lines.

The effects of the prescribed burn at San Vicente Redwoods will be a subject of ongoing research, with funding support from POST, Sempervirens Fund, and Save the Redwoods League. The three groups are currently funding research by the Amah Mutsun Land Trust to evaluate prescribed burning as a tool for vegetation management, enhancement of ethnobotanical resources, and fire safety.

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San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit
CONTACT: Angela Bernheisel
831-212-7805
Alternate: Rich Sampson
831-335-6742
RELEASE
DATE: October 7, 2016

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Friday, October 7, 2016