The Lassen Fire Safe Council holds its January general meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15 at the Susan River Fire Protection Office, located at 705-145 Highway 395 in Johnstonville.
Items on the agenda include the Managing Director Report (Active Projects — CalFire Grants, Shingletown WUI Fuels Treatment, Whitmore Forest and Watershed Restoration and RFFCP Hazard Assessment), (SNC Grants — Bootsole, East Side Communities and Diamond Mountain), and (Other — Honey Lake Valley RCD-SPA, USFS Cradle Valley/Bootsole Dixie Fire Salvage, CWPP, Modoc RCD MOU*-SNC 966, California Fire Safe Council-County Coordinator Defensible Space Assistance Grant); Closed Out Projects (Hog and Sheep Fire Forest Restoration, Dyer Mountain WUI Fuels Treatment and Clear Creek and Hog Flat Fuels Treatment) and New Planned/Awarded Projects (South Lassen Wildfire Recovery Project, North Susanville WUI Fuels Treatments and UFSC UNF Dixie Fire Hazard Tree), Agency Updates (NRCS, SIR, BLM, CalFire, SNC, USFS, Lassen County OES, SPI, Honey Lake Power, Lassen County, Honey Lake Valley RCD, Red Cross and Firewise Community Leaders) and Public Comment/Questions.
The Lassen Fire Safe Council’s next regularly scheduled meeting will be held Feb. 19.
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