Secretary of the Interior Inspects Wildfire Reduction Projects in Malibu
On Wednesday, June 11, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne will visit Malibu and other locations in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to review hazardous fuels reduction projects.
The tour of the SMMNRA spotlights work being done by the National Park Service under the National Fire Plan to reduce brush, dead trees and other wildfire fuel in order to help protect communities such as Malibu that are interwoven with federal land holdings from catastrophic wildfire.
Agencies with large public parkland acreage have been criticized by citizen groups and local government officials for not taking a proactive stance on fuel load reduction, thereby imperiling neighboring private property owners and making the job of fighting wildland fires more difficult and more dangerous.
Kempthorne will visit Los Angeles County Fire Department Camp 8 in the Malibu mountains, where he will inspect the recent burn site and meet with members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department and other agencies.
The tour of the SMMNRA spotlights work being done by the National Park Service under the National Fire Plan to reduce brush, dead trees and other wildfire fuel in order to help protect communities such as Malibu that are interwoven with federal land holdings from catastrophic wildfire.
Agencies with large public parkland acreage have been criticized by citizen groups and local government officials for not taking a proactive stance on fuel load reduction, thereby imperiling neighboring private property owners and making the job of fighting wildland fires more difficult and more dangerous.
Kempthorne will visit Los Angeles County Fire Department Camp 8 in the Malibu mountains, where he will inspect the recent burn site and meet with members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department and other agencies.
posted by MalibuSurfsideNews @ 5:48 PM
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