Fire officials believe fuel-reduction projects — like the new firebreak near Delta — are more important now that climate change has made wildfire seasons start earlier and last longer, with larger and more destructive fires.
A heavy masticator like this was among the pieces of heavy equipment used by state Forestry and a contractor to clear vegetation from the fuel break the agency cut in an area west of the Delta River and the City of Delta Junction. The masticator knocks down trees and then grinds them up into chips.
“That area has a got a frequent-fire history,” says Norm McDonald, who heads up Forestry’s Fairbanks-based fire and aviation operations. “The combination of fire starts and the wind — that’s just an area of concern for us.” That toe-hold is the 349-acre fuel break, west of the Delta River and the city of Delta Junction on state land near military training areas that are littered with unexploded bombs and other munitions.
“Having a pre-identified or pre-established fuels break in that area just makes a lot of sense,” McDonald said in an interview Wednesday.
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