Nick's Interns
After last year's highly successful New Forestry Trial Project at the Southern Humboldt Community Park, the Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) will again be hiring four local high school students through the Nick's Interns program, set to begin early this summer. Led by the Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council's Bill Eastwood--with his 30-plus years of experience in salmon restoration, fire prevention and response, and sustainable forest management--this year's project will renew a shaded fuel break on Elk Ridge in the Briceland area. If you're a high school student ready to work with ecological principles this summer (2006) to improve both forest health and fire safety in the Briceland area, contact the Nick's Interns program through Theresa Vallotton at: 986-1078, 986-7797 or theresa@mattole.org
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This spring ISF and Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council begin a joint project: Strategic Planning for Fire Safety. We see this project as an important component of our collective community efforts to maintain, restore, and protect the forested landscape in Southern Humboldt. The project follows a recent effort by the Humboldt County Fire Safe Council to identify key resources, hazards, and projects for the County Fire Plan. Using information developed through the County process as well as other sources, ISF/SHFSC will develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for the Southern Humboldt area.
The Southern Humboldt Fire Plan will support SHFSC's efforts to protect Southern Humboldt from the impact of catastrophic fire and to restore controlled fire to its historic and prehistoric role in ecosystem functioning. While much of the focus in Fire Planning is on protecting people and residences from the effects of fire, it is important to note that fuel breaks, residential clearing, and fire response planning also protect local forests and watersheds from erosion, stream sedimentation, loss of wildlife habitat, and other effects of catastrophic fire. DO YOUR PART!
For more information contact:
John Rogers at Institute for
Sustainable Forestry
PO Box 1580, Redway, CA 95560,
707/923-7004, contact@newforestry.org
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TOC for Forest & River News, Spring 2006