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Draper City crew outlines brush-cutting, burn-pile and mulching tactics to limit canopy fires
Summary
Riley Porter of the Draper City Wildland Fuels Crew described the team’s approach to wildfire risk reduction: cutting understory, creating burn piles for winter prescribed burns, mulching with a skid steer and chipping material to keep fires low and prevent them from reaching tree canopies.
Riley Porter, a member of the Draper City Wildland Fuels Crew, described the crew’s day-to-day fuel-reduction work and the tactics used to reduce the risk that wildfires will reach tree canopies. “We run big saws all day and cut down big trees and brush,” Porter said, explaining that sawyers and swampers work together to cut and pile understory material.
Porter said crews either form burn piles to be cleared in…
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