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Conservation Service sets aside fund for fuels
reduction on private lands |
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May 7, 2016 |
 Idaho
state Conservationist Curtis Elke, who is with
the Natural Resource Conservation Service
(NRCS), has set aside $100,000 under the
agency’s Environmental Quality Incentives
Program for the first year of a special project
to help private landowners implement practices
to reduce excessive fuels and the risk of
wildfire on their property.
"We would like to get this information out to as
many foolks as possible in Boundary County,"
said Ree Brannon, District Conservationist for
the NRCS.
The project includes the counties in Northern
Idaho. The goal is to use practices such as fuel
breaks, slash treatment, pruning, access
control, and thinning to remove forest materials
that would allow fire to spread on the ground or
in the canopy. Sign up ends May 20, 2016 for
2016 contracts. Information is available at your
local NRCS field office. |
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