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From a release:
Beginning March 8 and continuing through this month, Nevada County will begin work on the Egress/Ingress Fire Safety Project. The primary goal of the project is to remove hazardous fuels along both sides of 200 miles of county maintained roads. Work will be completed by county road crews and contract forces. The list of roads that will be part of the project, as well as additional details on the contractor and the scope of work, is available at the following website: http://www.mynevadacounty.com/FireSafetyRoadsProject
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“The Egress/Ingress Fire Safety Project has been made possible thanks to a Cal Fire grant awarded to Nevada County in large part thanks to collaboration with Cal Fire, local fire agencies, local Firewise Communities and citizen involvement,” said Director of Public Works Trisha Tillotson in a release. Wildfire risks to homes, critical infrastructure, and other valuable natural resources will be significantly reduced with the reduction of hazard
Group looks to form Wildfire Advisory Council
Ravalli Republic (Hamilton, MT)
Feb. 19 A nonprofit organization focused on educating folks in the
Bitterroot Valley about the dangers of wildfire is looking to take its efforts one step further.
Considering that
Ravalli County has been identified as having the greatest risk of severe wildfire in the state, with six of its communities in the top 10, the timing couldn t be better.
The Fire in the Root program recently applied for a Montana Forest Action Plan grant to transition its awareness campaign to a formal
Wildfire Advisory Council. The council would be made up of community ambassadors.
Housing and Development Newsletter
It went to the City Council on Tuesday in hopes of obtaining a specific plan for development of the site.
A majority of the City Council objected and referred the proposal for conceptual review to the Santa Barbara Planning Commission.
The clinic intends to relocate its current center from 4141 State St. to the site, and change the zoning from parks and low-density residential to medical office use and a higher-level of housing to possibily build affordable housing.
The American Indian Health & Services Clinic is in the process of acquiring the former Army Reserve Center at 3237 State St. in Santa Barbara. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)
At the time, Napa County Fire Chief Geoff Belyea remembers he believed there would never be another fire season like 2008.
But he thought the same after the Valley Fire in 2015, and again amid the Atlas and Tubbs fires in 2017. Asked if he now believed Napa County would see increasingly severe fire seasons going forward, Belyea paused.
âI donât know if you can say that we have seen the worst, but I donât know if you can say the worst is yet to come,â he said.
Itâs hard to speak in certain terms about what future fire seasons might bring for Napa County and the North Bay. What is for certain, experts say, is that warmer and drier conditions across California are giving way to wildfires more frequent, chaotic and destructive than ever before.