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Prescribed Fire Preparation:

North Ramona Fuel break (map 1) Urban Corp crews continue working on North Ramona West cut/pile work in the crosshatch, area as weather permits.

Fry Creek (map 2) – Crews may be working on various preparations for pile burning.

Jeff Valley (maps 3-5) – Crews may be working on handlines and various pile burn prep activities.

Palomar Fuel breaks (map 6) – Crews may be working on various preparations for burning.

*Morgan Hill (map 7) –Our staff will continue to evaluate if this is a project that we can begin implementing.

Prescribed Fire: Last week crews completed the pile burning on North Ramona (west), 95 acres burned in two days 1/19 & 1/20. All pile burning on the North Ramona FB is complete for this burn season - archaeological surveys can be completed anytime (west section).

Urban Corp has 13 acres of cut/pile work to complete and we plan to burn this 23-acre section just north of the dump next burn season (fall 24-winter 25), depending on when they finish.

We are setting up for pile burning in Jeff Valley Tuesday 2/29 – Friday 3/1 this week. Burning could occur in multiple units if we need to move to locations that are more receptive to burn (sheltered/different fuels).

We will continue to monitor weather, fuels, and access conditions for other burn projects. If conditions are not too wet after this next round of precipitation, next week could be an opportunity to enter Fry Creek, and/or the Palomar Fuel break projects.

North Ramona Fuel break – prescribed burning complete for the burn season.

Total acres burned on North Ramona FB to date: 258 acres.

Palomar Mt. Piles – prescribed burning may occur in Jeff Valley & Fry Creek, with available burn windows.

Burning could go multiple days with the right conditions.

Our priority burn area in Jeff Valley (140 acres) will be in piles adjacent to Conifer Rd. (Units 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 9, 4, 6, and 18).

Our priority burn area in Fry Creek is Units 8a/b & 2a/b. We will likely burn in Jeff Valley as the priority over Fry Creek, but it is possible that we could burn piles in Fry Creek with snow on the ground.

Acres burned in Jeff Valley to date: 31 acres.

Palomar Fuel breaks – prescribed burning may occur with available burn windows.

Admin/Station Piles – pile burning could occur anytime conditions are favorable.