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Flagstaff, San Bernardino officials point to local fuels projects and collaboration as models
Summary
Local fire officials from Flagstaff and San Bernardino described multi-decade collaborations, watershed protection investments and targeted treatments that officials say have reduced risk when projects are sustained and maintained.
Officials from Flagstaff and San Bernardino told a House Natural Resources hearing that locally driven, long-term collaborations and investment in fuels treatments have demonstrably reduced fire behavior near communities and provided models for other regions.
Neil Chapman, a wildland fire captain with the Flagstaff Fire Department, described the Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project, a locally driven program funded by a 2012 voter-approved $10 million bond that leveraged more than $40 million in partner contributions. Chapman said that combination of thinning, prescribed fire and a growing local timber industry…
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