Additional WW fuels reduction
- Shingletown WUI Fuel Treatment grant, funded by Cal Fire totaled $8.7 million
- Lassen Fire Safe Council continues to perform additional work throughout Shingletown
- Whispering Woods Estates properties and community participation made it possible to use large logging equipment to complete the project
- The underground infrastructure and minimal fencing was a large factor leading to the success
SCOPE
- Ladder fuels reduction targeted a 10% Basel fuel reduction for specific species of conifers uner 14" diameter on participating properties
- Dead / dying trees that could safely be removed with logging equipment
- Large logging equipment needed to traverse multiple properties
OUTCOME
- 32 properties were successfully treated
- 2300 tons of chipped material was removed
- Shasta County (CSA 13) was treated
- Caltrans vegetation management team performed work on their property at the ingress / egress to the community
INVOLVEMENT
- Lassen Fire Safe Council, Shasta County Fire Safe Council, Shingletown Fire Safe Council
- Shasta County (CSA 13)
- Cal Fire
- Peterson Timber
- Caltrans
- W.M. Beaty
- Lisa Glen, LLC
- Firewise committee