2012 Vegetation Management Projects Prepare to Begin

Before - 2011 Hillcrest Road Project Site

After - 2011 Hillcrest Road Project Site

Starting next month, the Fire Department will be busy completing 20 acres of fuel hazard reduction work through two Vegetation Management Projects which include both the Eucalyptus Hill Road and Coyote Road areas.


Through these projects, the fire department will work closely with both individual property owners and neighborhoods to accomplish wildfire safety education, assist with completing fuel hazard reduction, protect natural resources unique to the area, and outline maintenance programs for continued hazard mitigation. By working with multiple property owners, there is a greater impact on reducing the community threat from wildfire. In addition, work through these projects allow firefighters a greater opportunity to effectively save lives and property as fire moves from the Wildland into the more densely populated areas of the City.

Vegetation management focuses on the removal of flammable vegetation outside a property owner’s required defensible space by preferentially removing exotic pest plants, thinning, pruning and limbing existing vegetation to remove fire ladders, limbing up of oak over story, pruning out dead material, and thinning out continuous areas of brush.

Funding used to complete these collaborative fuels hazard reduction projects between the City and residents of the high fire hazard area is provided by a combination of funds established through the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District and a grant provided by a National Fire Plan grant from the Cooperative Fire program of the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Pacific Southwest Region, through the California Fire Safe Council.