We hope that this booklet helps continue the legacy of land stewardship in Butte County and provides a background to future professionals and landowners engaged in fuels reduction, watershed restoration, and forest health.
Living safely with wildfire is a task that takes a wide array of partnerships and dedication from landowners in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). The amount of catastrophic wildfire since 1999 and their impacts to our communities has been unprecedented. As of the development of this booklet, over 60% of the forested areas of Butte County have burned. Although not all areas which burned were high severity, most were, and the overall ecological change to our forests has been incredibly devastating. Each wildfire we experienced has brought tragedy as well as opportunities to strengthen community relationships. We are grateful to our firefighters and first responders who helped protect our communities and forests.
We look forward to a future where cultural and prescribed fire are implemented at a scale that reduces devastation in Butte County.
We hope this booklet helps you feel closeness with the many fire scars we live in and drive through. We also hope that you feel inspired to invest in the many community efforts that have and will continue to make differences in our overall safety and protection of forests in Butte County.
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