Placer County Coordinated Fuel Break

In 2022, Placer RCD completed more than 300 acres of fuels treatment in Applegate using funding from CAL FIRE’s California Climate Investments program. The fuel break will improve ingress and egress routes, protect important historical and cultural resources, and modify fire behavior to improve ground and aerial suppression efforts in the event of a wildfire. Mastication, hand work, grazing, and herbicide were used to modify fuels. In 2022, the RCD received a block grant from CAL FIRE’s Wildfire Resilience program to widen the fuel break and use herbicide, grazing, and prescribed fire to further reduce fuels and maintain fuel break efficacy.

Before and after photos of work being done on the Placer County Coordinated Fuel Break.
Photo taken on June 17, 2021.
Facing north from Toyon Road June 17, 2021. This is the first glimpse of fuel break from Jesuit Retreat Center.
Photo of the Placer County Coordinated Fuel Break taken from Toyon Road on June 17, 2021.
Photo taken on June 17, 2021, facing northwest.
Placer RCD received grant funding from CAL FIRE to reduce fuels on more than 300 acres along the North Fork American River Canyon in Applegate, CA. The Placer County Coordinated Fuel Break (Applegate Shaded Fuel Break) will improve fire safety for the communities of Applegate, Heather Glen, Weimar, Clipper Gap, and neighboring federal lands.

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Funding for this project provided by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as part of the California Climate Investments Program and the Wildfire Resilience and Forestry Assistance Program.

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