<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div class="" style=""><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/environment/article_6f5b9620-3306-11e4-8225-0017a43b2370.html" class="" style="">http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/environment/article_6f5b9620-3306-11e4-8225-0017a43b2370.html</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; border-collapse: separate; "><iframe src="http://stats-newyork1.bloxcms.com/trinityjournal.com/?title=Officials%3A%20Recent%20prescribed%20burn%20helped%20stop%20fast-moving%20Oregon%20fire%20-%20The%20Trinity%20Journal%20%3A%20Environment&referrer=http%3A//www.trinityjournal.com/news/environment/article_6f5b9620-3306-11e4-8225-0017a43b2370.html&domain=trinityjournal.com&uri=/news/environment/article_6f5b9620-3306-11e4-8225-0017a43b2370.html%3Fmode%3Dprint"
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bold 24px/27px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Officials: Recent prescribed burn helped stop fast-moving Oregon fire</h1><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "
class=""><strong style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: 700; " class="">By Sally Morris The Trinity Journal | Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 6:15 am</strong></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: right !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; width: auto; max-width: 300px; z-index: 1; "><img title="A prescribed burn" alt=""
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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 18px/24px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">A prescribed burn</h4><div class="" style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">A prescribed burn (in off-white) slowed the Oregon fire so that firefighters could get a handle on it.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; clear: both; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial;
border-color: initial; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; "></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class=""><strong style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style:
initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: 700; " class="">Damage assessments under way</strong></div><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Firefighters who tamed the wind-driven flames of the Aug. 24 Oregon fire at the doorsteps of town are crediting last fall’s prescribed fire treatment within the Weaverville Community Forest and the Weaver Basin Trail System for helping them to stop the fire’s advance on Trinity High School and the many homes in harm’s way until the wind calmed.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style:
initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">With fire crews still on scene in mop-up mode, the damage assessments began immediately. Hiking up the Garden Gulch trail north of Taylor Street, it is easy to see where prescribed burning was conducted last November and where it wasn’t.</div></div><div class=""
style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font:
normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Uphill on the treated side of the trail, grasses were scorched, but the trees are green and undamaged. Downhill where heavy brush was not treated, the recent fire burned hot and fast, resulting in blackened earth and greater tree mortality.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important;
position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Touring the area immediately after the flames were out, Shasta-Trinity National Forest Fuels Specialist Tim Ritchey of Weaverville estimated tree mortality of approximately 10 percent where the fire ran through areas that had been treated with prescribed burning to reduce the buildup of fuels. It is closer to 60 percent where no treatment occurred.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px;
outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal
17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">“The treated areas really slowed the fire down so the crews could get in. The intensity decreased and the rate of spread slowed which aided us in getting around and ahead of the fire,” Ritchey said, pointing to a section where there were 20- to 30-foot flames on the wildfire side of the trail and flames of less than a foot on the treated side.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;
float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">“It’s really nice to see defensible space in action,” said the Shasta-Trinity’s acting Public Affairs Officer Debra Ann Brabazon, noting that prescribed burns are not always popular with the public in the short-term, “so it’s important for the community to see there is a positive, long-term
effect.”</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Having existing trails in place also provided quick access for firefighters “who didn’t have to cut and bulldoze their way into the fire here,” she said.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important;
margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">The U.S. Forest Service and Weaverville Volunteer Fire Department last November conducted the prescribed burn on 76 acres north of Taylor Street involving Community Forest land accessed by the Weaver Basin Trail System and some private acreage owned by the Snyder Highland Foundation.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important;
overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">The burning was done as part of the Weaverville Community Fire Protection Plan and to enhance wildlife habitat by increasing forage for deer. The Trinity County Resource Conservation District assisted and grant funding was received from the California Deer Association.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Some sections of the Weaver Basin Trail System sustained severe damage in the recent wildfire, primarily in the vicinity of Weaver Bally Road near the fire’s origin along Highway 299. Ritchey noted the McKenzie Gulch trail “really took some heat and there’s not much left there,” but he said that overall, “the trails will be OK” for upcoming bike races in October and flames didn’t reach as far up as the Howe Ditch section.</div></div><div class=""
style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font:
normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Trail damage assessments also began immediately following the fire as did restoration work to repair bulldozer lines, prevent erosion and replace tread torn up by suppression efforts.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">“The goal is to return the area as much as possible to its pre-fire condition,” Ritchey said.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Trinity County Resource Conservation District Director Alex Cousins said the RCD will staff a couple of extra summer positions through the winter to focus on the anticipated
trail work needed to clear out water bars, remove hazards and replace bridges that were burned.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">He said Sept. 27 happens to be National Trails Day and a community bike ride/volunteer trail cleanup event is being planned, adding “our trails will be fine. Next spring this will all be green grass again.”</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color:
initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">As far as doing more prescribed burning in the area, Ritchey said there are plans being made to treat about 230 acres in the East Weaver Creek drainage this fall for community protection and wildlife enhancement as well as a Jackass Ridge project involving about 90 acres to expand on a smaller burn
conducted there in January. </div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">n n n</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">The Watershed Center is looking for private landowner partners for future Rx Fire projects. The center can provide assistance with landscape assessments, burn plans and implementation. The center works with you to help you achieve your objectives for your land, while also completing ecosystem restoration and enhancement.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important;
margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Learn more about the many benefits of Rx Fire and programs at
the center’s Rx Fire workshop.</div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">For more information contact George Chapman or Dave Jaramillo at the Watershed Center Office, 628-4206.</div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>