Gold Hill - Grandview Terrace Firewise Community

07/19/2026

Urgent Message to Gold Hill, Osborne Road, The Cedars, & Foster Road Firewise Communities:
On 7/29 Bear Yuba Land Trust is having a Special Meeting---Save Cedar Ridge Preserve! AND this is also a Firewise opportunity for Gold Hill, Cedar Ridge and nearby neighborhoods. Below is more information...if you have questions, need more information, or want to find out how to help support making our neighborhood safer, please consider attending the meeting:
Where: North Star House, 12075 Auburn Rd,
Time: 5 p.m to 6:30 p.m
Here's why this is important to surrounding Firewise communities:
The 137-acre parcel (outlined in blue on the map below) next to Empire Mine State Historic Park is for sale.
From a fire prevention point of view, protecting this parcel represents an extraordinary opportunity.
Four Firewise Communities surround the State Park. The Cedars Firewise Community is heading up an effort to get Bear Yuba Land Trust (BYLT) involved in purchasing the property to create a “Cedar Ridge Preserve.” This would allow this huge, forested parcel to be treated with fuel breaks, etc., to help protect the residential neighborhoods around the State Park from wildfire.
There is now another buyer interested in the property, so BYLT has called an urgent meeting with those of us who have an interest in seeing the parcel protected as a preserve. The meeting is on July 29 2026, from 5:00 – 6:30 at the North Star House. We hope to see you at the meeting.

09/08/2023

I hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine after all that rain! Don’t forget this Friday September 8th, 2023 from 10 am-12 pm is Quarterly Wildfire Stakeholder Meeting in Grass Valley! The meeting will focus on Past Events: Lessons Learned and Future Outcomes. We will be focusing on the 2020 Jones Fire from the perspective of wildfire response, ecological impact/recovery, and community recovery. Our speakers will discuss the lesson learned from this fire and how we are moving forward. This will tie into our group activity around wildfire resiliency and answer the question “Is Nevada County Wildfire Resilient”? Join us to learn how past events can guide future actions and the what is truly means to be a wildfire resilient community. The meeting will be at the Grass Valley Vets Hall, 255 S Auburn St., Grass Valley, CA. Please RSVP with the attached calendar invite or using this link:

June 9th, 2023 from 10 am-12 pm will be the second official Quarterly Wildfire Stakeholder Meeting of 2023 and will be our first-ever QWSM in Truckee!  The meeting will focus on Biomass Solutions.  The meeting will be at the Truckee Tahoe Airport Community Room, 10356 Truckee Airport Road,...

08/15/2023

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08/02/2023

Good morning all,

UC Cooperative Extension is giving a talk on defensible space through Sierra Streams Institute's monthly event called Sci Pub, where informal talks are given on science-y and community interest subjects. It's a lot of fun! (If you'd like to get on the listserv, let me know, it is once a month on Tuesdays).

It is also free to attend (but you pay for drinks) on August 22nd from 6-7 pm at Gold Vibe Kombuchary in Grass Valley (12615 Charles Dr, Grass Valley, CA 95945).

At this talk:

"We will dispel myths about products and materials, offer science-based solutions for construction, design, and maintenance; and provide an opportunity for shared, experiential learning."

Below is the flyer on this event.

Register: https://forms.gle/seksBbojFd1PCAUQ6

The University of California Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) is an equal opportunity provider.

11/03/2022

A follow-up radio training was held on Wednesday, Nov 2. The following was discussed:

- programming radios that got missed;

- demonstrating how to tune to KVMR;

- demonstrating how to make the screen stay lit longer and how to adjust the screen brightness to increase visibility;

- reviewing some of the things about the radio that people in radio watch groups have found confusing; and

- questions were answered.

10/30/2022

The second training for the Fire Watch Radio group, a subsidiary of our Firewise Committee, was held today. We learned about our two-way radios and had practice scenarios for the proper communication in emergencies. We will continue to practice for a few more weeks to assure we are all on-board. Roles were assigned as follows: Lorraine Walter is the Meeting Manager, with Debbie Lindh as backup, Ed Tulley and Zac Witte are our Information Monitors, Byron Stevenson is the backup. The meeting/training was well attended and was very informative.

10/29/2022

Fire in Penn Valley, forward progress stopped...

10/23/2022

We held our first community meeting. There was a wealth of information shared:
1. Why we want to become a Firewise community.
2. What we have done so far and what remains to be done.
3. What the fire risks are in our neighborhood.
4. The radio communication program that is being launched for our area.
5. Concerns regarding being surrounded by Empire Park property.
6. The need for those who have not submitted their survey's to please do so, with the assurance that all information on surveys is confidential.

Note: property owners where PGE has cut trees down and not taken the trunks etc away, they are responsible to do that at no cost to you. Contact Marcella Castleberry, Consulting Utility Forester at:
530 388-0874
Email: [email protected]

We had a great first turnout, thank you to all that came!

10/20/2022

Have you seen this video?

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension publication AV-10-03.

10/18/2022