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BCFSC’s Taylor Nilsson Featured on Life with Fire Podcast

In The News, Uncategorized

Last week, our BCFSC Executive Director Taylor Nilsson was featured on the nationally recognized “Life with Fire” podcast, sharing insights on community wildfire resilience and recovery as the third and[…]

Free Green Waste Disposal for Butte County Residents in the Wildland Urban Interface

Fuels Reduction, Neighborhood

As wildfire season approaches, managing vegetation around your home is more important than ever. If you live in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) in Butte County, you have an excellent[…]

PRESS RELEASE: Notice of Hazardous Fuels Reduction: 35/45 round 2

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PRESS RELEASE: Notice of Fuels Reduction in Forest Ranch – Doe Mill Ridge Mastication and Hand Piling Project

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‘Smoke, fire welcome in Magalia – Crews conduct 60-acre prescribed burn on ridge’ – Chico ER

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“This burn will reduce hazardous fuels, support native plant regeneration, and enhance habitat complexity — ultimately helping forests withstand drought, pests, and climate stress,…..By lowering wildfire intensity, prescribed fire reduces[…]

NEWS RELEASE: Broadcast Burning Projects in Magalia Funded by CAL Fire’s WUI Wide CCI Grant

Good Fire, Prescribed Fire, Press Release

  Broadcast Burning on PUSD Triangle Download PDF with Map:   Broadcast Burning Off of Tika Ln. – Completed 4/10/2025 Download PDF with Map:  

NEWS RELEASE: Prescribed burning planned near Magalia on Plumas National Forest Tomorrow

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Volunteer Month Spotlight – ‘Coded’ for Safer Community

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“With the scorched trees from the Thompson Fire visible from where we were sitting, the group was eager to participate and take steps to improve their wildfire safety in the[…]

NEWS RELEASE: Pile Burning Project in Paradise Funded by CAL Fire’s Camp & North Complex CCI Grant

Good Fire, Prescribed Fire, Press Release

For the upcoming weeks, we are grateful that conditions may allow for a pile burning project for community safety in the Paradise area. This project will focus on burning forest[…]

Park Fire Restoration Project: Protecting Big Chico Creek and the Future Landscape

Park Fire

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy and the CalFire CCI WUI Wide Grant co-funded the Park Fire Restoration Project, in the Big Chico Creek Canyon, where we successfully treated approximately 186 acres.[…]

Event Lookback: Concow – Then and Now - Lessons of Wildfire Recovery Bus Tour

Education, Restoration, Tours

Concow – Then and Now - Lessons of Wildfire Recovery Bus Tour 03-06-2025 On Thursday, March 6th, 40 residents, natural resource management partners and local representatives from Butte County and beyond[…]

April 2025 Forest Health Spotlight – South County

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Free Residential Green Waste Disposal Schedule: March-May 2025

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Building Resilience: Cohasset Loop Project Successfully Completed

Fuels Reduction, Mastication

The Butte County Fire Safe Council completed a 113-acre fuels reduction project in the Cohasset Community using mastication to create a shaded fuel break after the Park Fire. The project[…]

NEWS RELEASE: Pile Burning in Magalia funded by Sierra Nevada Conservancy

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Prescribed Fire Projects in Magalia, 2025

Advisories, Fuels Reduction, Good Fire

This season, good fire, in the form of broadcast burns and pile burning, will be part of the Butte County Fire Safe Council’s forest health resilience efforts in Magalia. Through[…]

Press Release: Butte County Fire Safe Council Partners with California Conservation Corps for Three Critical Fuels Reduction Projects

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Butte County Fire Safe Council Teams Up with California Conservation Corps for Wildfire Resilience Projects The Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) is thrilled to announce a dynamic partnership with[…]

‘SNC-funded fuel treatments protected Butte County communities from Park Fire’ – Sierra Nevada Conservancy

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From Sierra Nevada Conservancy  Read Online ‘Funded by SNC, the BCFSC spearheads key work’   “The BCFSC and the SNC have been working together for over a decade to make[…]

‘Butte County Fire Safety Council completes over 30 wildfire mitigation projects in 2024’ – Action News Now

In The News

Read Online   In 2024, we treated a total of 3,094 acres and completed 30+ projects. 568 of these acres on federal lands and 2,526 acres on private lands—milestones that[…]

‘California’s deadliest wildfire devastated this town. Now an insurer is eager to return’ – SF Chronicle

Articles, Firewise, In The News

From the San Francisco Chronicle 12/23/2024 Read Online

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  • ‘Smoke, fire welcome in Magalia – Crews conduct 60-acre prescribed burn on ridge’ – Chico ER

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