Ore-Cal Fuels Reduction Cause

Mt. Shasta Road 31 Fuel Break – 200 foot wide shaded fuel break on both sides of Road 31 from the Nordic Center Parking lot, east for approximately 6,000 feet with a goal to protect the Mt. Shasta Ski Park, communications tower above the ski park on Mt. Shasta and make safer evacuations in case of wild fire evacuation.

Miller Mt Fuels Reduction – A grant from USFS Klamath National Forest to do 1500 acres of planning and 300 acres of shaded fuel break treatments along Highway 97 from the Viewing stop just below Grass Lake to FS Road 21 and west along FS Road which include work behind the USFS station of FWS property.

Outsen Road Wildfire Fuels Reduction – This project is ready for final contract signing with Cal Fire to do Defensible Space clearing for 100 feet on 30 homes, brush field mastication and expanding the McKinney Fire dozer lines to 300 feet and adding more ridge top treatment to protect the south end of Yreka west of Wal Mart.

Two future project we need your support to plan and go after funding are the Rolling Hills to Kilgore Hills Mastication Project which includes the While Oak Forest on Westside Road.

The second project is located north of Weed in the Carrack Addition. Fuels reduction, defensible space and evacuation route fuels treatments are in the planning stages and with your help we can develop them to prepare for grant writing in coordination with Cal Fire Siskiyou Battalion.