Prescribed fires will resume in Sierra and beyond, after review of two that went awry

The practice has support from a Tuolumne County coalition that also seeks to use selective logging to reduce wildfire fuel. It is called Yosemite-Stanislaus Solutions and takes in the national park and adjacent national forest.  YSS this year helped secure a $55 million federal grant that will go toward creating fuel breaks and a mosaic of forest treatments. “This national level approval to begin applying prescribed burns again is especially important for our local region,” said an email from coalition co-founder John Buckley, director of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. “… It will take many years to get all that work done, but it needs to be ramped up as soon as possible.” Read more at: https://eedition.modbee.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=0ea6cf7b-134a-4f8c-929e-9d54fb492164