06/17/2024
𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 - 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑜 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡’𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛.
Pending favorable conditions, a multi-agency prescribed burn is planned for next Thursday, June 20-21 at the Red Bluff Recreation Area, located south of Hwy 36 and east of I-5 within the Red Bluff city limits. Forest staff are carefully coordinating the 400-acre maintenance burn with partners, including CAL FIRE Tehama-Glenn Unit/ Tehama County Fire Department, Red Bluff City Fire Department and Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians.
“This prescribed fire during fire season would give us the ability to reduce the remaining nonnative yellow starthistle before it can flower and produce seeds. This action will also lesson the possibility of unplanned fires in the recreation area spreading to cooperator lands or vice versa,” said Davis.
In September 2023, interagency firefighters conducted a prescribed burn in the area to protect private residences and business along Sale Lane and provide a training opportunity. Reintroducing low-intensity frequent fire to the area can decrease risk of future wildfire and help restore fire-dependent native plant communities. Fire crews will be working with the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians to promote cultural burning practices during the burn.
Firefighters are keeping a close eye on weather and conditions. As we move closer to Thursday, we will provide updates on the plans for this prescribed burn here on social media as well as on the Inciweb page (linke below). Thank you to our local cooperators and tribal partners for their support and collaboration.
More details are provided in the news release for this planned prescribed fire project.
News release: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/mendocino/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1180342
Inciweb for Mendocino National Forest prescribed fire projects: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/camnf-mendocino-nf-fall-2023spring-2024-rx-fire-projects
