By City News Service
Jan 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The United States Forest Service has extended a “developed campground closure at a dozen national forests in California, including the Angeles National Forest, it was announced today.
The closures will “provide consistent COVID-19 mitigation response in accordance with Gov. Gavin Newsom s stay-at-home orders, a USFS statement said. “These Regional Orders will be in effect through January 29.
The closed campgrounds are in California s Greater Sacramento, Southern and San Joaquin zones, and include Angeles NF, Cleveland NF, Eldorado NF, Inyo NF, Los Padres NF, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Plumas NF, San Bernardino NF, Sequoia NF, Sierra NF, Stanislaus NF and the Tahoe NF.
Day use of the national forests will remain open.
“We urge all visitors to follow CDC guidelines to recreate responsibly and check with your local national forests before visiting, the USFS said in a statement.
California avoided surging cases for months, but now the virus is raging out of control and across the nation in the wake of holiday gatherings that authorities say vastly spread infections. Only Arizona tops California in cases per resident.
Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous with 10 million residents, is one of nearly two dozen in Southern California and the agricultural Central Valley that have essentially run out of intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients.
Fighting Wildfires The Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS) and United States Forest Service (USFS) sought proposals to mitigate wildfire threats to landowners and communities through the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership.
The Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership (JCLRP) leveraged funding and resources from both the public and private sectors with an eye towards providing America’s private land owners with tools and assistance that improve their agricultural operations. This helps ensure the long term success of these landscape level efforts.
“Strategic investments across landscapes, such as those projects funded by the Joint Chiefs partnership, help create resilient forests, grasslands and watersheds while sustaining communities,” said Curtis Elke, state conservationist for NRCS in Idaho. “Treating lands to reduce wildfire threats is a smart investment that will protect vast areas of land and potentially save of millions of
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California officials are finally taking a look at reducing the devastating wildfires that have plagued the state for years because of environmentalist opposition to managing forests.
As Breitbart News reported in September, environmentalists and the courts were still resisting calls for effective forest management, including efforts President Donald Trump has tried to implement, such as thinning forests to reduce fire fuel and controlled burns.
But environmental activists have taken the matter to court with judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling the United States Forest Service put the plan in place “without assessing its environmental impact.”