"We're in a kind of hardwood, oak woodland forest type here, so crews are removing the small diameter Douglas firs that are encroaching in them," explained Shaun Horne, Watershed Resources Manager for Marin Municipal Water District."Douglas fir can become fuel that moves a fire up into the canopy of the forest."
"One being the spread of Sudden Oak Death, which we've had about 10,000 acres of our land impacted," Horne said."We've got invasive species, primarily in the form of French Broom that's colonized about 1,500 acres. Then we see encroachment of Douglas fir in the absence of natural fire on the landscape."
When visitors make their way around the trails the before-and-after is quite obvious, and while the areas of work can seem random, they are very targeted. The goal is to protect infrastructure, and prevent a fire so intense enough to damage the land itself.
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