Recent Projects

570 acres of "turn key" fuels reduction in preparation for the critically essential prescribed fire.

The Yuba river watershed has not had wildfire in many years and forest fuel accumulation is extremely high and the vegetation overgrown. This job is in Nevada City, on the edge of the wildland Urban Interface (WUI) next to the south fork of the Yuba river. The community of Nevada city has a large area Wildland Urban Intermix - this is where the sprawling urban dwellings are intermixed with frequent fire dependent plants and trees. The intermix areas are some of the most challenging to provide the essential fire that all the plants and trees require for survival, and this makes the Nevada City area one of California’s most dangerous places to live because of the threat of catastrophic urban intermix destruction - similar to the 2018 CampFire.

This project needs to be multiplied 1000% around and throughout the Nevada City area to reduce the risk of wildfire's destructive potential in the area.

The estimated completion date is 2025.

470 acres of pile burning. Provided a crew of qualified firefighter to conduct ignition to pile burning operation.

The estimated completion date is November 2024.

Fuels redistribution in preparation for Rx Fire.

Within the Chico city limits the flood canal called "Lindo Channel" had become overgrown with vegetation and overloaded with fuel accumulation and was identified By TFRF as a dangerous wildfire risk to the community of Chico.

TFRF created a plan to rearrange the fuel ~5 years ago. Before signing the contract to redistribute the fuel to mitigate fire behavior during a wildfire event, TFRF made the recommendation to burn the fuel in piles to naturally remove and reduce the fuel.

Project completed in February 2024.

Taught the basic (NWCG) chainsaw class. Training consisted of classroom learning, Field Day, test and grade.

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) provides national leadership to enable interoperable wildland fire operations among federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners.  Primary objectives include:

Establish national interagency wildland fire operations standards. Recognize that the decision to adopt standards is made independently by the NWCG members and communicated through their respective directives systems.

Establish wildland fire position standards, quapfications requirements, and performance support capabipties (e.g. training courses, job aids) that enable implementation of NWCG standards.

Support the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy goals: to restore and maintain resipent landscapes; create fire adapted communities; and respond to wildfires safely and effectively.

Establish information technology (IT) capabipty requirements for wildland fire.

Ensure that all NWCG activities contribute to safe, effective, and coordinated national interagency wildland fire operations.

Chainsaw fuel cutting (Plumas Underburn Coop - PUC), Pile building (labor of love), Pile burning.

Project location is directly behind and adjacent to Quincy High School (QHS) and in downtown Quincy across from the Safeway shopping mall. The area is part of a “No Burn Zone” as put into law by Plumas County in the 1980’s and enforced by the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD). Since then we have learned that Wildfire is impossible to suppress permanently and the longer fire is absent the greater fires potential for destruction, we have also learned that in the absence of frequent fires - trees and forests accumulate enormous amounts of burnable material, when this happens around towns in the fire prone, frequent fire adapted landscape, the use of fire as a stewardship process to maintain low levels of fuel accumulation is critical.

Bill Jacks spearheaded the fuels reduction work with 100% volunteers from the Labor of Love and the Plumas Under burn Cooperative (two organizations who Bill had brought together in the past in similar ways) The advantage of not having any money being involved was that no insurance was required. People getting together to “do the right thing for the right reasons”. Bill realized this was a strategic area to conduct a pile burn in the middle of town “thinking outside the box” to set precedence. Bill was able to work within the societal system to obtain permission and permits from: Plumas Unified School District (PUSD), the NSAQMD, Cal Fire, Quincy Volunteer Fire Department, Plumas Fire Safe Council. Burning with an official Burn Plan and Zero complaints or air quality impacts to the community.

Terra Fuego- Jim Wills and Duane Fields assisted with burn plan review and participation during the burn. Also Terra Fuego provided PUSD an insurance certificate for Prescribed Fire.

Project completed April 2023.