An Alternative For Reducing Fire Hazards On Your Property
Walker Range Fire Protection Association is encouraging property owners to reduce fire hazards on their lands. As a partner in the National Fire Plan cooperative effort Walker Range will provide their chipper to assist residential landowners within the Walker Range FPA Protection District in this effort.
For further information contact Walker Range at 433-2451.
There is no charge for this service.
Call Today to Schedule an Appointment
Call after April, 2004 to inquire about scheduling.
Walker Range Fire Protection Association is encouraging property owners to reduce fire hazards on their lands.
As a partner in the National Fire Plan cooperative effort Walker Range will provide their chipper to assist landowners within the Walker Range FPA Protection District in this effort.
Create a Firewise Environment?
The purpose of a Firewise Environment is to create a fuel break around your home and, in some cases, along your driveway. The fuel break is designed to slow the rate and intensity of an advancing wildfire and to provide an area for fire suppression operations to occur OR to create "survivable" space.
A fuel break is a natural or man-made area where material capable of allowing a fire to spread unchecked does not exist or has been treated, cleared or modified and shall be comprised of:
Non-flammable ground cover (generally within 30 feet of your home). Examples include bare soil, rock, asphalt, concrete, or irrigated green grass, clover, ivy, wildflowers, mulches, or succulent ground covers; or dry grass maintained to an average height of less than 4 inches. Cut grass may be left on the slope to protect the soil if it lays down within 4 inches of the ground; and
Within 100 feet of your home, single specimens or isolated groupings of trees, ornamental shrubbery or similar plants, provided they are:
1) Kept green;
2) Substantially free of dead plant material;
3) Free of ladder fuel; and arranged in a manner that adjacent vegetation cannot convey a fire through the fuel break
Debris is removed or reduced by chipping, burning (by the landowner) or other method.
Chipping - The use of power chippers is encouraged wherever feasible. Typically, chipping is of greatest advantage where wildfire fuels are accessible by existing roads. It is not recommended to create new roads for chipper access, or to transport chippers off existing roads and across steep erosive slopes for use in the disposal of brush. To make efficient use of the chipper, cut and stack the material before the chipper is available. When piling material to be chipped, stack with the butt end of the material toward the location of the chipper.
