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Local volunteers warn fuel-break work must be funded and maintained; estimate $1.5 million a year to sustain progress
Summary
A Calaveras County volunteer presenter said completed fuel breaks protect thousands of structures but require timely maintenance; speakers gave cost estimates for treatment and argued for new, faster maintenance prescriptions and local funding pools.
Pat Ruby, a member of a Calaveras County forest-team volunteer group, presented results from local fuel-break and restoration projects and warned that the initial treatments require rapid follow-up or the work will be lost to regrowth.
Ruby summarized historical fire patterns in Calaveras County, outlined the toolbox of treatments (logging, mastication, chipping, piling/burns, herbicide and grazing) and described before-and-after examples. He said the county's Highway 4 corridor projects aim to protect roughly 8,500…
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