Cultural Burn Planned Near South Fork Eel River
Stock photo of a prescribed burn in Southern Humboldt.
Press release from Briceland Fire:
Cultural Burn Practitioners will gather on Sunday, March 29, among the oak woodlands and meadows just west of Piercy near the South Fork Eel River to conduct a planned cultural burn.
This burn marks the first phase of a five-year stewardship plan aimed at reducing the encroachment of young Douglas-fir into meadow, mature oak, and hardwood ecosystems across approximately 28 acres of land owned by the Redwood Forest Foundation.
The stewardship effort will be led by local Wailaki Cultural Burn Practitioners, with support from area Volunteer Fire Departments, CAL FIRE personnel, and Prescribed Burn Association members.
With favorable weather conditions expected, smoke may be visible west of Piercy beginning around 10:00 a.m. and continuing through the evening. Light residual smoke may remain in the area until anticipated wetting rains arrive early next week.
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These folks do an excellent job of managing land with fire. They’ve done some really good work at So Hum Community Park. Good to see the elimination of non-native plants, poison oak, blackberries and way too much grass. Fire safety!
IMHO: Weird ‘greenie’ stuff here.
Nature tries to take back the lands from ‘human encroachment’.
People try to burn it off.
Go figure.
There were once herds of elk to browse the young trees, plus the indigenous used fire from ancient times. Educate yourself before making yourself appear ignorant
Hmm…
Indian fires = Human impact.
Indians burned off the vegetation to provide better hunting for deer and elk.
Altered the woodland biome to provide more Oak trees… for acorns.
BTW: Elk herds aren’t doing a good job in the Bald Hills. State Parks burns off the prairies every year to prevent ‘tree encroachment’.
If left to ‘nature’… these areas would be old growth forests.
Capable of doing Carbon capture… you want Carbon capture… don’t you ?
Yeah… weird greenie stuff.