HomeMy WebLinkAbout04.26.21 Butte Unit VMP Cohasset Project Drone Video
From:Messina, John@CALFIRE
To:Alpert, Bruce;Bennett, Robin;Clerk of the Board;Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly;Cook, Robin;Kimmelshue, Tod;
Lucero, Debra;Paulsen, Shaina;Pickett, Andy;Ring, Brian;Ritter, Tami;Rodas, Amalia;Sweeney, Kathleen;
Teeter, Doug
Cc:Pickett, Andy;Hatcher, Casey
Subject:Butte Unit VMP Cohasset Project Drone Video
Date:Monday, April 26, 2021 3:40:47 PM
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Group,
I am sharing a link of drone footage of our heavy equipment preparing one of our Vegetation
Management Program (VMP) projects below Cohasset which is approximately 3000 acres. The 2
dozer are dragging an anchor chain to crush the thick and tall brush. The concept is to create a
buffer of crushed fuel around smaller blocks of land within the 3000 acre project. Creating smaller
blocks will allow us to use prescribed fire much easier than trying to burn 3000 acres at once. The
crushed (dead) brush will burn with lower intensity and can be burned under wetter conditions than
standing live fuels. Once the buffer is burned in around the blocks ensuring no chance of fire
escaping the project boundaries, we will return with a Helitorch to burnout the interior fuels. This is
a multi-year project.
Project Description
Loafer Creek LLC VMP in Butte County south of the community of Cohasset at 90 Nicalog Road,
Chico, CA 95973, Latitude: 39° 50’ 45” N, Longitude: 121° 48’ 48” W: BTU HFEOs will be chaining
brush using an anchor chain and two BTU dozers to prepare the area for broadcast burning.
Broadcast burning is planned for April 26 on 10-15 acres that have been previously treated by
landowner Ken Dixon. This is a recently approved VMP totaling approximately 3,000 acres in a very
brushy area with little recent fire history. This project will enhance the protection of Cohasset’s vital
evacuation route as well as provide watershed, wildlife, and grazing benefits. The stakeholders for
this project are several private landowners and Loafer Creek LLC, a corporation created for
mitigation banking.
Cohasset chaining video and
pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eabzcPR2oqohEVaNfOIE7WekePrfzAJZ?
usp=sharing
Thought you might enjoy!
John Messina
UNIT CHIEF
CALFIRE – BUTTE UNIT
Butte County Fire Department
Cities of Biggs, Gridley & Town of Paradise
Cell# 530 329-9891
Office# 530 538-7111