{"id":169086,"date":"2023-10-30T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=169086"},"modified":"2023-10-30T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:17:25","slug":"groveland-ranger-district-to-begin-5238-acre-china-ridge-underburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=169086","title":{"rendered":"Groveland Ranger District to Begin 5,238 Acre China Ridge Underburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groveland, CA&#8230;With ignitions planned for today, crews on the Stanislaus National Forest\u2019s Groveland Ranger District will begin prescribed fire operations on the China Ridge burn units.\u00a0 The Chine Ridge burn units are located adjacent to the Groveland Ranger District office and following China Ridge south to Greeley Hill Road approximately four miles north east of Greeley Hill.\u00a0 The majority of the underburn is adjacent to Smith Station Rd, Greeley Hill Rd, and Forest Service Road 2S05.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-169087\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn.jpg 896w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn-570x723.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn-701x889.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of up to 5238 acres will be treated over the next 5 years with low-intensity fire, with planned ignition on approximately 50- 200 acres daily. Size of burn may vary with weather and fuel moisture conditions, as well as permissible air quality burn days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the prescribed burn, fire professional will reduce the buildup of flammable forest fuels, both ground fuels and ladder fuels; reduce the threat of uncontrolled, large and damaging fires; treat activity generated fuels; improve protection for life, property, and resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prescribed burning is an effective, cost-efficient method of reducing flammable forest fuels, improving firefighting capabilities, and reducing the impacts of large, uncontrolled damaging wildland fires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoke may be visible from Smith Station Road and Highway 120 with some down canyon drift smoke visible in the evening and early morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groveland, CA&#8230;With ignitions planned for today, crews on the Stanislaus National Forest\u2019s Groveland Ranger District will begin prescribed fire operations on the China Ridge burn units.\u00a0 The Chine Ridge burn units are located adjacent to the Groveland Ranger District office and following China Ridge south to Greeley Hill Road approximately four miles north east of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169087,"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-169086","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\/2023\/10\/ChinaRidgeBurn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086","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=169086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169090,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions\/169090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}