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CDFW Initiates Massive Wildfire Protection Effort at Wildlife Areas, Ecological Reserves Statewide

July 1, 2021

Two huge tractors create a wildfire break along a fence line on CDFW property in Merced County.

CAL FIRE inmate crews work to clear brush at the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve in El Dorado County.

Wildlife-friendly fencing -- with no barbs on the top and bottom strands to allow wildlife to cross unscathed, is being installed to accommodate grazing on many CDFW properties to reduce wildfire fuels.

CDFW Environmental Scientist John Watkins holds an image of a rare yellow plant at the Pine Hill Ecological Reserve in El Dorado County next to the actual plant growing in the ground.

CDFW has undertaken the largest wildfire protection and resiliency effort in its history, working to safeguard nearly all of its wildlife areas, ecological reserves and the surrounding communities from wildfire ahead of peak wildfire season this summer and fall.

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