{"id":162306,"date":"2023-06-29T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=162306"},"modified":"2023-06-29T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:39:48","slug":"lightning-caused-bone-fire-being-managed-to-achieve-multiple-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=162306","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Caused Bone Fire Being Managed to Achieve Multiple Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Groveland, CA&#8230;What began as a lightning-caused wildfire along Jawbone Pass in the pre-planned Cherry North Prescribed (RX) Burn Unit on the Stanislaus National Forest\u2019s Groveland Ranger District is being managed to achieve multiple objectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lightning ignition was originally detected on June 15, and district fire managers immediately began work to ensure this naturally ignited fire stayed within pre-determined boundaries. Much of the work, including thinning vegetation along containment lines and clearing roads impacted by winter storm damage has already been completed based upon pre-existing prescribed fire plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lightning strike happened right in an area where we had already done significant planning and prep work,\u201d said Groveland District Fire Management Officer, Pat Laeng. \u201cAssuming weather conditions remained favorable, we had every intention of performing prescribed fire operations on this pre-defined unit in the very near term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing natural fire to spread in areas where it can be safely and effectively managed helps restore natural fire return intervals, increasing forest resiliency and aiding in reducing catastrophic wildfire risk to our communities,\u201d said Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor, Jason Kuiken.<\/p>\n<p>Kuiken noted that every fire \u2013 prescribed or wildfire \u2013 has a containment strategy developed using a full spectrum of management actions that consider fire and fuel conditions, predicted short- and long-term weather conditions, values at risk, resource availability, land management plans and designations, smoke impacts, and the potential for successful consumption of fuel loads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery management strategy identifies places suppression resources need to prioritize activities based on values at risk. However, containment strategies may include identification of natural barriers or locations where fire could be ecologically beneficial,\u201d said Kuiken. \u201cIt should also be pointed out, these burn units, and where the fire started, are within the Rim Fire burn scar which itself acts as yet another containment tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 80 firefighting resources currently assigned to the near-completed Strawberry Prescribed Fire have been reassigned to the Groveland District to improve existing containment lines within the Cherry North RX Burn units. In addition, fire managers intend to utilize and reinforce existing Forest Service Roads, and utilize Cherry Creek, Reynolds Creek, and Cherry Lake as potential natural containment lines.<\/p>\n<p>Current warming trends that halted operations on the Strawberry Prescribed Fire Project are not having the same impact on the Bone Fire located nearly 2000 feet higher in elevation where temperatures are normally 5 -10 degrees cooler. Conditions will be assessed on a continual basis, and should the fire not meet the objectives of the Cherry North Rx Burn Plan then full suppression efforts will be utilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll told, we\u2019re hoping to complete 961 acres of fuels mitigation,\u201d said Laeng. \u201cAll of this is of course dependent on the continued availability of resources, weather, and other critical factors.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Incident Website &#8211; <a tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/incident-information\/castf-bone-lightning-fire?fbclid=IwAR0679qTR-12zWEKQIBK6v1ejVsL5xvOa6BYoeyp6AbfJqTiIbsMNOhUZoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/&#8230;\/castf-bone-lightning-fire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groveland, CA&#8230;What began as a lightning-caused wildfire along Jawbone Pass in the pre-planned Cherry North Prescribed (RX) Burn Unit on the Stanislaus National Forest\u2019s Groveland Ranger District is being managed to achieve multiple objectives. The lightning ignition was originally detected on June 15, and district fire managers immediately began work to ensure this naturally ignited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-tuolumne-county","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usfslogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162309,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162306\/revisions\/162309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}