Placer Land Trust is honored to receive a grant from Metabolic Studio. Grant funds will support our prescribed burns program, which reduces fuel loading in dense areas, promoting safer and healthier forest ecosystems.
Placer Land Trust has been expanding our use of fire as a land management method to successfully steward the lands in our care. We are currently planning to broadcast burn approximately 20 acres across three preserves that were recently thinned, piled and burned using CAL FIRE funding.
We also have received funding from the Center for Biological Diversity and administered by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, for a Restoration through Good Fire project in partnership with the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe and the Sierra Nevada Alliance.
Broadcast burning is a critical follow-up treatment to thinning and pile burning because it removes the lighter fuels such as pine needles, leaves, and grass from the ground. Broadcast burning involves acquiring the necessary permits and creating a burn plan, as well as digging containment lines around the perimeter of the unit, running hose lays along these lines to provide pressurized water during the burn, carefully lighting the fuels, and fully extinguishing the unit after the burn is completed.
Securing funding for such treatments has proven to be challenging, so we are especially grateful to Metabolic Studio for making this project a reality for us!
