Prescribed Burns Begin at Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz

KSBW ^ | Oct 27, 2021

[nickcarraway]

California State Parks will be doing more than a week of prescribed burns at Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz.

The burns will take place between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. starting Wednesday, Oct. 27, and will run through Friday, Nov. 5. Proactive monitoring and patrol will continue throughout the burns.

The burns are not only to reduce wildfire risk, but to enhance the health of the grassland by removing dead brush, leaves, and roots, which will, in turn, restore essential nutrients to the soil.

People throughout Monterey Bay can expect to see smoke lingering until the burns are complete.

The burns come days after an atmospheric river storm brought significant rainfall to the region.

This is the first prescribed burn in Santa Cruz County since a burn at Estrada Ranch near Corralitos jumped containment lines on Oct. 16 and became the Estrada Fire. That burn was led by Cal Fire San Mateo Santa Cruz Unit.

[higgmeister]

I rather like the uncontrolled burn of Wilder Napalm.

[martin_fierro]

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[bobbo666]

No, they don’t, unless they are run by idiots.

CaCaLAnd used to do those routinely until the politicos in charge made a deal with the treehuggers. This political deal is the source of ALL of the wildfires since then, decades of them.

Doing it right after that Gawd-awful rainstorm of last week is good timing. I got close to 8 inches in my back yard in a 10 hour period. A fire after that would only work on a field that could dry out in a few days. What is needed is a few more days of drying out so a similar burn can be done within the forests.