Alaska fire crews are participating in a long-term strategic effort to reduce the effects of catastrophic wildfires by creating fuel breaks within 50 feet of the roadway, which allows personnel and residents to maintain access.
WILLOW, Alaska - Out in the Lynx Lake area Wednesday afternoon, a Pioneer Peak Hotshot crew was busy chainsawing beetle-kill and slash, while another was burning piles. It’s part of a long-term strategic effort to reduce the effects of catastrophic wildfires by creating fuel breaks within 50 feet of the roadway.
In recent years, Southcentral Alaska has experienced an outbreak of spruce beetles that have created dangerous wildfire conditions in heavily wooded areas. Beetle-killed spruce mixed with wind-driven weather events have heavily contributed to the quick growth of some of the most notable wildfires Alaska has experienced in recent decades.Victor Snell, fire chief for the Willow-Caswell Fire Department, called it “gasoline on a stick.
Which is why the Division of Forestry is utilizing federal grants to thin out the dead trees and dry slash along remote residential roads. But it’s not just up to the state and local entities to take defensive measures, it is also the responsibility of property owners toBrian Grenier is a longtime resident in the area and has taken it upon himself to do the same work on his land, which the forestry division says is something they like seeing.
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