Beginning as soon as Tuesday, January 19, 2021, the Bureau of Land Management’s Bakersfield Field Office plans to conduct prescribed fire operations at Case Mountain Extensive Recreation Management Area, southeast of Three Rivers in Tulare County. Pile burn operations could continue periodically from now through the spring. BLM plans prescribed fires
The prescribed fires are designed to improve landscape health and to remove hazardous fuels that could feed wildland fire at the recreation area. The Castle Fire was an imminent threat to the area’s giant sequoia groves this past summer and fall but due to the efforts of firefighters never made it to Case Mountain.
We have to be more creative with doing away with wood fuels, and seeing as this is the winter that wasn’t so far, glad to see this sort of action taken, and why not something similar in Sequoia NP?
It didn’t happen this past Thanksgiving, but during the 2 prior Thanksgivings the first storms of the year were quite powerful, the 2018 model putting out the Eden wildfire in Mineral King in a jiffy, and the 2019 version even more potent.
Why not have hundreds, nay thousands of prescribed burns up and down the state ready to ignite say a few days before the weather forecast shows the first storm of the year to warrant it. Of course, that first storm may not be viable so you do nothing and expand the prescribed burn perimeter for the next year.
Let the fires rage and go beyond the prescribed burn lines, if Mother Nature is going to do all the heavy lifting of putting it out for you, and she doesn’t charge a penny for her efforts, as opposed to the bill for putting out the Castle Fire.
Preparation for a prescribed burn takes a lot of people, as in jobs.
I didn’t know where to put this, so I’m writing here. So so sorry to hear about John. Don’t worry about the 3R News. Yes, if John promised somebody something, they will, undoubtedly, contact you, haha :-)!
Otherwise, please just relax and focus on John. You and he have all our prayers for healing and recovery. He may surprise you – and his doctors – and recover faster than you expect! Look for it! Love, Leah & Peter
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