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A fire mitigation project in the Crystal Valley created a mosaic of cleared area and islands of brush left untouched.
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A direct view of the masticator used on a fire mitigation project in the Crystal Valley.
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About 12 miles south of Carbondale on a gentle slope dominated by aging oak brush, a bulldozer fitted with an industrial-sized mulcher chewed through leafless trunks and limbs Thursday.
The work covering 29 acres on national forestland was invisible to traffic whizzing by on Highway 133 and from homes at the adjacent Swiss Village subdivision. But firefighters and public land managers considered it a small, vital step in what will be a long process to reduce fire hazard in pockets throughout the greater Roaring Fork Valley.