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Mono County part of Eastern Sierra plan that won $4.65 million wildfire defense grant
Summary
Eastern Sierra governments led by SCOG won a U.S. Forest Service Community Wildfire Defense Grant of about $4.65 million to fund five years of hazardous-fuels removal, home assessments and workforce development across 34 communities in Mono and Inyo counties.
Mono County and regional partners will receive about $4,650,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand hazardous-fuels removal and community wildfire-defense work across 34 communities in the Eastern Sierra.
The award, announced to the Board of Supervisors by Mono County wildfire mitigation coordinator Wendy Kraszewski, will be administered through the Eastern Sierra Council of Governments and cover five years of on-the-ground work, equipment purchases and workforce-development activities.
Kraszewski told the board the grant will put “the vast majority” of funds toward hazardous-fuels removal and will also pay for home ignition-zone assessments, community clean-up events, chippers and dumpsters, burn equipment and workforce programs designed to create sustainable local crews. “The communities have informed everything,”…
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