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“Education is inexpensive when it’s a preventative one!” |
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Why do I need to know these things?
Here’s a simple answer: Standing outside your home, turn and face your home then close your eyes. In your mind, picture a 30-foot area of native plants and grass surrounding your home. Now open your eyes: does your home even bear a resemblance to these articles that you just read? Do you have any of those plants or landscaping to protect your home from a wildfire? Could you or the fire department stop a wildfire as it approached your home? Would you have to leave and watch your life be changed?
There are ways you can prevent the damage a wildfire can cause. Without that 30-foot buffer surrounding your home, wildfire can and will destroy your homestead. You now have the reason for the need of this Firewise plan. Devote some time, read the knowledge we’ve assembled for you within this site. Then you will find yourself among the many that now possess needed FIREWISE knowledge. Did you answer yes to all the statements? Now you know why there is much to learn...
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Pre-Commercial Thinning or PCT
Thinning is the cutting or removal of certain trees from a stand to regulate the number, quality and distribution of the remaining "crop" trees. It the cut trees can be marketed, the thinning is "commercial". If the cut trees are too small to sell, the thinning is considered "pre-commercial". The cut trees must remain where they fall for this to be considered a pre-commercial thinning.
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