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The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced a project to reduce wildfire risk in the Auburn State Recreation Area in El Dorado County. Reclamation is partnering with the California Conservation Corps and the Cool-Pilot Hill Fire Safe Council to create a shaded fuel break between the Recreation Area and the Northside Elementary School in Cool, a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County.
A shaded fuel break is created by cutting and trimming larger woody shrubs and smaller trees and chipping that material on site. The goal of a shaded fuel break is to reduce the intensity of a potential wildfire moving through an area by decreasing the amount of vegetation that could burn. By thinning out the undergrowth, it helps keep the fire from moving quickly into the trees.
Reclamation’s ongoing partnership with the CCC Placer Center is dedicated to shaded fuel break work on federal lands adjacent to the urban interface where county development has occurred, and community Fire Safe Councils are recognized. Towns, neighborhood communities, and other infrastructure adjacent to the Auburn State Recreation Area are evaluated for fire prevention and protection, environmental conservation, land maintenance, and emergency response to natural disasters.
