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- Written by: Cal Fire
Cal Fire encourages and supports safe residential pile burning of forest residue by landowners; it is a crucial tool in reducing fire hazards but must be exercised with caution and preparedness.
State, federal, and local land management and fire agencies will also be utilizing this same window of opportunity to conduct prescribed burns aimed at improving forest health on private and public lands.
Residents wishing to burn must verify it is a permissive burn day prior to burning. Agriculture burns within the State Responsibility Area must be inspected by Cal Fire prior to burning until the end of fire season. Inspections may be required for burns other than agriculture burns. This can be verified by contacting your local air quality management district.
Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit would like to remind the public of the requirements for debris burning in State Responsibility Area.
The following are burning permit requirements, and must be adhered to when the requirement for permits is lifted:
For burning debris in small 4-feet x 4-feet piles:
• Maximum pile size 4 foot in diameter.
• Clear all flammable material and vegetation within 10-feet of the outer edge of pile.
• Keep a water supply close to the burning site.
• An adult should be in attendance with a shovel until the fire is out.
• No burning shall be undertaken unless weather conditions (particularly wind) are such that burning can be considered safe.
No household trash or garbage can be burned outdoors at residences. Dry, natural vegetation, grown on the property can still be burned outdoors in open piles, unless prohibited by local ordinances. Burning can only be done on permissive burn days.
Burn permits are only valid on “Permissive Burn Days” as determined by the State Air Resources Board or the local Air Pollution Control District.
Violations of any burning permit terms are a violation of state law (Public Resources Code 4421, 4422, 4423 And 4425).
To verify it is a permissive burn day prior to burning, contact the Lake County Air Quality Management District at 707-263-7000.
For more on residential burning and ways to burn safely visit https://burnpermit.fire.ca.gov/.
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- Written by: Western Region Town Hall
The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Habematolel community center, 9460 Main St. in Upper Lake.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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- Written by: Redbud Audubon
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Redbud Audubon Society is pleased to announce that Ashton Kluttz, executive director of The Bird Rescue Center in Santa Rosa will be guest presenter on Thursday evening, March 17, starting at 7 p.m. on Zoom.
To register for the program, go to www.redbudaudubon.org and click on the registration link on the home page. The link will be sent to you the day of the meeting.
The Bird Rescue Center, located in Sonoma County, treats an average of 80 Lake County patients annually.
Kluttz reports that most of their osprey and bald eagle patients have come from Lake County in recent years.
The hospital cares for close to 3,000 native birds annually. Patients are a combination of songbirds, raptors and water birds.
Eighty percent of the birds that come to the center have injuries that are a result of human-related interactions such as flying into windows, being electrocuted by utility wires, being hit by cars, being attacked by pet cats and more.
The center also receives hundreds of herons and egrets each year from the Ninth Street rookery located in downtown Santa Rosa.
The Bird Rescue Center was founded in 1976 and during the first few years, was an association of volunteers working from their homes.
In 1980, the center was granted permission to occupy a vacant Quonset hut on Sonoma County’s Chanate Road campus.
Kluttz completed her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies at Washington College in Maryland. She began her career as a wildlife rehabilitator in 2009 with the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County.
Her tenure with The Bird Rescue Center in Sonoma County began in 2010. Striving to provide the best care for local wildlife, she obtained her Registered Veterinary Technician certification in 2018, has co-authored a chapter on towhee care currently included in a wildlife care book for facilities around the world, and has served on the board for the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators that provides community, protocols, and information to all California wildlife facilities.
Everyone is urged to join this fascinating Zoom program to learn about The Bird Rescue Center and hear behind-the-scenes stories of bird rescue (particularly of Lake County patients), and unique avian observations from the last few years.
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- Written by: Caltrans
Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway volunteers can earn up to $250 a month to clear litter from California’s highways as part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s $1.1 billion Clean California program.
To learn more, visit the Clean California website at cleanca.com.
This News Flash is the 237th in a series of videos highlighting Caltrans’ activities that present the wide-ranging and critical work that Caltrans does to enhance California’s economy and livability.
To see more of these and other videos, search for #CaltransNewsFlash on Twitter or visit the Caltrans News Flash page.