Butte County Fire Safe Council & American Forest Foundation team up to thin forests

The Butte County Fire Safe Council is partnering with the American Forrest Foundation to help landowners thin their forests

And with these dry conditions... people in magala are not taking any chances - working to get ahead of of the fire season.

Action news now reporter mackenzie drigo was at a demonstration in magalia to show what a healthy forest should look like... the butte county fire safe council is partnering with the american forrest foundation to help landowners thin their forrest's.

Action news now reporter mackenzie drigo was at the demonstration in magalia to show what a healthy forrest should look like.

Take pkg if you cant walk through your forrest without being scratched& it could be a fire hazard.

The program called "sierra woods" is helping landowners get a jump start on making their forrest healthy hoping to prevent another wildfire.

Calli-jane deanda is the executive director of the butte county fire safe council and says a healthy grown forrest should have trees 20 feet apart.

<sot calli-jane deanda executive director of butte county fire safe council ("with the experience of the camp fire that our forrest were overgrown and we lost much of them to the devastating nature of the fire were going to deal with that decades to come, dead trees that are hazardous to peoples safety, and this gets us ahead of that curve if landowners can thin the forrest now before the fire comes then well have more trees that live and survive through fire and we wont have to pay for that disaster recovery down the road,") a-f-f received a grant from cal fire climate investment to start this project.

The a-f-f will help landowners pick which trees are hazardous.

Sot 16 seconds ("if you look up and you can see that that tree has a chance to go through the canopy then it will have a chance to get sunlight and get strong but if its kind of crowded by another tree and its never going to be able to get up then its kind of like a garden that is over grown those trees are too close together.

Some of them just need to come out,") jessica hueter lives in magaliaã she thinks this is beneficial.

Sot jessica hueter community member in magalia ("obviously up here it didn't burn as much, there a tremendous amount of biofuel itll be safer for us and its also reduces the chance of wild fire and it makes the forrest so much healthier,") dan graves wished tree thinning happened a while ago.

Sot dan graves, community member of magalia ("it needs to be done it should have been done a long time ago they should of tree farmed this whole area and hopefully they now but the trees that are burnt and stuff, they're just going to die.

They're going to fall over and hurt someone or whatever, well because tree farming is the way to go you cant have 7 or 8 trees right next to each other and expect them well first of all to grow and the second of all when the fire comes by its fuel for them so," more vo i checked - depending on the size of each forrest the time of the project will vary.

Reporting in paradise, mackenzie drigo, action news now.> the butte county fire safe council will be holding another workshop on march 18th.

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