HomeMy WebLinkAbout1.3.23 Board Correspondence - FW_ Support Letter to BLM for the Collaborative Prescribed Fire Projects in Butte CountyFrom:Clerk of the Board
To:BOS
Cc:Sjolund, Garrett; Hatcher, Casey
Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: Support Letter to BLM for the Collaborative Prescribed Fire Projects in Butte County
Date:Wednesday, January 4, 2023 8:19:48 AM
Attachments:1-03-23 BLM Prescribed Fire Support Letter.pdf
Please see Board Correspondence below.
Shaina Paulsen
Associate Clerk of The Board
Butte County Administration
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965
T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120
From: Moak, Peggy <pmoak@buttecounty.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 5:15 PM
To: Endicott, Chad W <cendicott@blm.gov>
Cc: Daneluk, Paula <PDaneluk@buttecounty.net>; Pack, Joshua <jpack@buttecounty.net>; Loeser,
Kamie <KLoeser@buttecounty.net>; Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Eli
Goodsell <egoodsell@csuchico.edu>; Walker, Thad <thad@bcrcd.org>
Subject: Support Letter to BLM for the Collaborative Prescribed Fire Projects in Butte County
Greetings, Chad, and Happy New Year!
Attached is a letter from the Butte County Federal State Land Use Coordinating Committee,
expressing support for the planned fuels reduction projects within Butte County on BLM Lands.
We’re writing to let you know that, while Butte County did not have the capacity to analyze the
Environmental Assessment document and provide comment, we are supportive of fuels reduction
projects on BLM lands within the County. Private citizens have expressed concern over the past
several years regarding dead or dying stands of timber on BLM lands adjacent to their properties.
Fire damage from the 2017 and 2018 fires has exacerbated this situation. We are pleased to see the
BLM partnering with
the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) and the California Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection (Cal Fire), to implement hazard fuels reduction and prescribed burn operations, described
as:
Two strategic locations within Butte County: Three BLM parcels adjacent to the Big Chico
Creek Ecological Reserve near the community of Forest Ranch in the Big Chico Creek
drainage, as well as on two BLM parcels near Phoenix Hill, just south of Lake Wyandotte
along Forbestown Road, near the communities of Oroville and Hurleton. Both areas have
experienced wildfires within the Treatment implementation at these locations would consist
of mechanical and manual thinning of vegetation combined with prescribed burning.
We agree with the premise that these treatments should reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire by
reintroducing fire at intensities and return intervals that promote ecological function and
productivity, meet multiple resource management objectives, and protect adjacent values at risk.
Thank you for your partnership and collaboration on these projects within Butte County. We are
hopeful that these are just the first of such projects on BLM lands.
Sincerely,
Peggy MoakSpecial Projects
Butte County Federal/State Land Use Coordinating Committee
Butte County Forest Advisory Committee
25 County Center Drive, Suite 213, Oroville, CA 95965
M: 530.370.2933 pmoak@buttecounty.net
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