Cultural Fire Management Council, “Skey-wok kee' we Mech (It Needs Fire) Phase 1” - Sudden Oak Disease

CAL FIRE is providing funding to the Cultural Fire Management Council to immediately treat Sudden Oak Death SOD across 1,999 acres of the Upper Yurok Reservation on Tribal Trust and Private Fee lands in Humboldt County. Proposed activities include site preparation through manual handlines and targeted mastication adjacent to existing fuel breaks and/or bulldozer lines, followed by prescribed fire, including pile and broadcast burning. These treatments are intended to reduce SOD spore loads and l...