Snow levels drop near the base of mountains around Hemet seen along Domenigoni Parkway after a series of cold storms move through the region, Feb. 26. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
SAN BERNARDINO — A final decision has been made for the North Big Bear Landscape Restoration Project. Objectives of the project include promoting forest health, returning beneficial fire to the landscape, improving the watershed condition, protecting resource values and restoring unauthorized roads and trails that have been created within the project area. The successful implementation of this project will reduce the risk of catastrophic fire which would serve to protect two adjacent communities (Fawnskin, Peter Pan Community of Big Bear City) and the greater Big Bear Valley.The environmental assessment analyzes the approximate 13,000-acre region between the Big Bear Dam and Baldwin Lake.Over the past 100 years or more, fire suppression on the SBNF has excluded fire from much of
