Landowner Burning in Butte County, California

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2 жыл бұрын

The Butte Prescribed Burn Association is an alliance of people who want to support eachother in using fire to reduce wildfire hazards or enhance the ecological function of their private property. The project was spearheaded by Wolfy Rougle, at the Butte County Resource Conservation District as part of a Watershed Coordination grant from the California Department of Conservation (DOC).
I have been working under this DOC funding, coaching landowners on how to safely use fire as a management tool, and training students of the Butte Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX).
This video shows a group of landowners conducting just under 10 acres of low-intensity burning in thinned pine and black oak forest. The pine trees here are spindly because this area used to be choked with 12 foot tall manzanita and the trees had to fight for sun. The landowner thinned and burned piles of brush for years. Now, he can use fire to keep the manzanita from taking back over, and also, to kill small conifers to keep the area from becoming overcrowded with trees.
We've had great weather for prescribed fire the past few weeks, and have been getting a lot of burning and filming done for a longer video about prescribed burning in Butte County.
For more information about the Butte PBA, visit www.bcrcd.org/prescribed-burn...
For more information about other California Prescribed Burn Associations, check out calpba.org/

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@fromtheloveofjay271 4 ай бұрын

California needs this statewide!

@bob_frazier 2 жыл бұрын

Good looking fuel management!!! Man just look at that crown spacing, beautiful, so gorgeous.

@GoCoyote 2 жыл бұрын

This is what I see as the direction we all need to be going towards. Fire was a major part of California ecology that was also promulgated and managed by Native Californians for protection and community benefits. This has been radically changed by immigrants behaviors towards fire control, but can be brought back and used to the betterment of us all. Well done!

@sierranevadahiker4440 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@richardburguillos3118 2 жыл бұрын

Now that was special. Great seeing people working with good fire to help manage and prevent bad fire. Really special folks out there… including yourself. Thanks for sharing.

@BoMcGillacutty 11 ай бұрын

Indeed. These lands were born to burn and literally can't thrive without it, not IF only how and when can we influence. Many coveted native tree species canNOT exist without fire inc. our beloved Giant Sequoias!

@canyonhaverfield2201 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating..big encouragement..I'm forwarding to many friends

@vickielewis3848 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic exercise. Love it.. 💜🔥 The thing of the future. Thanks Zeke. Learn and Teach.👍😚🐈🐈🐈‍⬛

@Alamochannel 2 жыл бұрын

Love that this is in my county! Good people doing good work

@jgurtz 2 жыл бұрын

Doing the good work here. Nice to see kids getting involved too! Can only hope these kinds of organisations (and the partnerships) continue to grow in fire-prone areas.

@ThePlaylists001 2 жыл бұрын

Zeke, How do we get more of this? Content is fantastic but the actual prescribed burning is critical. We need this times a million. Economic damage to CA (and the west) from fire this year was enormous not to mention the cost to public health and lives lost.

@TheLookout1 2 жыл бұрын

I think the PBA model is great, but the scale is currently extremely small. We need larger landowners to get on board. To do this, they need bulletproof liability protection for the cost of suppression and resource damage on adjacent public lands if their burns escape control.

@barrydysert2974 2 жыл бұрын

Long have i been acquainted with good fire. It was really nice to see it in practice. i enjoyed the interviews. Real people laying fire to the ground. Thanks to all of you 🙏👍

@danweicottrell435 Жыл бұрын

Having a young fellow with such a smile and innocence ...I would make it my face page too....Chuckle....giggle!

@jasonmajors5733 2 жыл бұрын

Zeke, thank you for sharing the hard work performed by land owners conducting pre fire planning and preparation. We have seen so much destruction from catastrophic fire. It is refreshing to see community engagement, pride and the sharing of good fire knowledge to younger generations. Your passion for forrest health truly shows and is much appreciated. Please keep sharing.

@BallardBaller 2 жыл бұрын

Your a great educator to the public, doing a better job than the government, even though you work for them.... you need a promotion, to a new position, that needs to be created... as that job federally doesn't exist yet

@TheLookout1 2 жыл бұрын

I don't work for them, though I get hired to work on grant-funded burns and planning.

@BallardBaller 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLookout1 regardless, after being through a few fires, and having to evacuate in Nor Cal, I have learned more about fire behavior, on your channel, than anywhere else. Land ownership in the northern counties was something I previously put behind me because of the fires. Your shard knowledge is making me rethink everything. 👏👏👏

@OwnerOfOwn 2 жыл бұрын

really really awesome, would love to live in the forest with it properly managed, wide open healthy trees for acres!

@Equilibrium-Manifesto 2 сағат бұрын

If my place makes it I need to do this on my place and also I feel motivated to volunteer next burn season. I’m gonna peep your website. I’m a forest ranch local. My dad found the old train station building the store and realty store is in and my mom was the kindergarten teacher there for 35 years

@Weathernerd27 2 жыл бұрын

If I was the forest service I would be doing lots of perscribed burns in March/April/May I know there is alittle bit of risk and people would complain about the smoke but if you do nothing you are guaranteed huge destructive fires in the summer. As usual the government fails to do its job so glad these people are doing the right thing.

@petuniaromania6294 2 жыл бұрын

Smart planning and training - well done.

@dagwood527 2 жыл бұрын

Good to see. We sure need a lot more of this.

@NDFlyFisher 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative . Thanks for sharing.

@heychiarle 2 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@BoMcGillacutty 11 ай бұрын

Small world, know Greg Shandel well. 🙂 This is fantastic if only tiny scale, an example of what to strive for and how. Forward to the PAST when this was done seasonally all over the West until the devastation of Smokey Bear Mythology indoctrination reaped it's inevitable results.

@sierranevadahiker4440 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! How do you get involved in helping out with prescribed burns like this? I would love to help out. Do you need special qualifications to participate in PBA or TREX?

@sterlingwallstrum8975 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff. Is this more effective than creating burn piles? Or I imagine much less labor intensive, and maybe more effective for larger areas?

@michaelwoodsmccausland915 Жыл бұрын

Let’s Gather in Butte Meadows Mercantile To plan a larger strategy MWM

@ofdlttwo 2 жыл бұрын

How do you get the fine dead fuel moisture? Out of an appendix or is there a tool/measuring device?

@TheLookout1 2 жыл бұрын

We weigh specially prepared pine sticks and compare their weight to what we know they weigh when they are completely dry.

@patdenney7046 2 жыл бұрын

Did you get your permits from three different organizations so they can tell you what you could do on your own property and then come out and reinspect when you’re done

@bob_frazier 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in Oregon our fall broadcast burning season was about a week long between to dry and too wet. Then the air quality managers drug their feet making it all but impossible to do.

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 2 жыл бұрын

I have one question about controlled burns; what happens to the wildlife? Do deer and other herbivores have feed available after these burns? It seems that wildlife would flee the burn. Some animals are territorial, and so on. So I really am curious as to how that works out?

@GoCoyote 2 жыл бұрын

The trick is to burn small areas in progression so that different areas are in all stages of growth. These burns help wildlife by promoting new growth and forest health, promoting food producing species like pine and oaks in the areas that they grow and feed many animals including deer, and preventing catastrophic habitat loss from major fires. All animals then have diverse areas for movement to meet their needs.

@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 2 жыл бұрын

@@GoCoyote Are such burns done to burn manzanita bushes? In my experience, this is the usual place where deer like to bed down in and take cover.

@GoCoyote 2 жыл бұрын

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Manzanita needs fire to reproduce properly. As long as different areas are burned every year, the manzanita will have a chance to regrow, and the thickets will not be so thick with dead material. It is also ok to keep some old growth manzanita alive by the techniques used in the video. More fresh shoots grow after fires, so the deer have more to eat.

@BeyondPC 2 жыл бұрын

Landowner burning seems the wrong language. Prescribed burning is more appropriate. A landowner burning is when a land owner is thrown in the fire yah?

@ericunderwood8080 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Butte County and get burned a the time..come on out and see how it works...you'll be amazed at how crooked and corrupt it it here! Better yet ....you best stay the hell away