SAN BERNARDINO – Officials with the San Bernardino National Forest are seeking comments for a proposal to establish and maintain linear fuel breaks across the forest. Comments are due by September 23, 2024.If implemented, this project will establish up to 25,000 acres of linear fuel break to help reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire while reducing catastrophic wildfire risk to adjacent communities. Treatments include: pile, jackpot and broadcast burning; mastication; thinning; herbicide use; hazard tree removal (dead/dying trees that have the potential to hit roads, utility lines, structures, facilities and improvements), and; reforestation to maintain shaded fuel breaks and converting a strip of vegetation adjacent to specified roadways to non-burnable materials.Contact
