Lassen – Modoc Unit - Board of Forestry and Fire Protection - State ...

FIRE MANAGEMENT PLAN 2008
Lassen-Modoc Unit
adjacent WUI zone - Up to ½ mile
around the “Community At Risk”
boundary to the outer edge of the
WUI is the area where collaborative
community based hazardous fuel
reduction efforts should occur so that
fires approaching or leaving a
community will be less intense,
generate fewer embers for spot fires,
and provide for defensible actions by
suppression resources. These fuel
reduction projects would focus on
reductions in surface, ladder, and
canopy fuels on public and private
lands.
D.7. Extended WUI zone - Up to a mile
around the adjacent WUI zone (for a
total WUI of 1.5 miles). In this area,
community based hazardous fuel
reduction efforts should occur to
compliment work within the adjacent
WUI, providing additional
community protection. This would
reduce potential wildland fire impacts
so that they will be less intense,
generate fewer embers for spotfires
into the community, provide
protection to surrounding natural
values, and provide for safer and more
efficient firefighting.
These fuel reduction projects would
focus on reductions in surface, ladder,
and canopy fuels on public and
private lands.
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lands - Complete all proposed Quincy
Library Group (QLG) projects, and
seek opportunities to expand the
proposed QLG network into
communities. There are corresponding
QLG maps and associated acres in table
format. (Section 3. Page 48)
2) Explore incentives for landowners
to reduce hazardous fuels - Explore
incentives for existing large landowners
to meet HFR standards on their
properties.
1) Continue mitigation measures into
extended WUI - Mitigation measures in
the extended WUI would be the same or
similar to those in the adjacent WUI
zone, but be second priority for WUI
work.
2) Complete QLG network on public
lands - Complete all proposed Quincy
Library Group (QLG) projects, and
seek opportunities to expand the
proposed QLG network into
communities. There are corresponding
QLG maps and associated acres in table
format. (Section 3. Page 48)
3) Explore incentives for landowners
to reduce hazardous fuels - Explore
incentives (e.g. tax breaks, waive yield
taxes, and THP exemptions) for
existing large landowners to meet HFR
standards on their properties.