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Podcast: Prescribed burns and wildfire in Santa Cruz County

December 20, 2020 By Stephen Baxter

by Stephen Baxter
December 20, 2020December 20, 2020Filed under:
  • Ben Lomond
  • Big Basin Redwoods State Park
  • Bonny Doon
  • Boulder Creek
  • Brookdale
  • CZU August Lightning Complex Fire
  • Davenport
  • Podcast
  • San Lorenzo Valley
  • Santa Cruz County
  • wildfire

In the wake of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in Santa Cruz County, this episode explores forest management policies in the state and county. It also looks at the role of prescribed burns in land management in the county, and a new Central Coast Prescribed Burn Association.

Transcript below, for members.

A grassy area is set alight during a controlled burn in southern San Benito County in June 2019. (Devii Rao — Contributed)

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  • Santa Cruz County
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