This Summer’s Prescribed Burns
In August, Marin County Fire, in coordination with Marin Water, completed a 21-acre prescribed burn near Bon Tempe Lake on the Mount Tamalpais Watershed. This burn is part of a larger fuels reduction and forest health project.
Combined with prescribed fire efforts completed just east of this area on the watershed in July, a total of 61 acres adjacent to Bon Tempe Lake received prescribed fire fuel reduction treatment over the summer. Once the next unit is completed, which could happen sometime this fall or early winter, the agencies will have burned 105 acres on the watershed – removing flammable vegetation and increasing wildfire resilience in the region.
What’s the importance of a prescribed burn?
Prescribed fire is one of the most effective tools we have to reduce hazardous fuels, support ecologically healthy forests, protect an important source of our local drinking water and help protect the broader community from high-intensity wildfire. Each operation is carefully planned, coordinated, and executed with safety as the top priority.
Burns are conducted only when strict operational, environmental, and air quality standards are met. Burn windows are carefully selected based on conditions that ensure favorable fire behavior and effective smoke dispersion.
Learn more
Want to stay informed about future prescribed burns? Sign up for the “Prescribed Burns” notification group in your AlertMarin profile. Visit Emergency.MarinCounty.gov, click “Sign up for emergency alerts,” log in, and check the “Prescribed Burns” box. Please note: if you’re already signed up for AlertMarin, you still need to manually opt in to this specific group.
Read about a prescribed burn on Mt. Tam
A huge thanks to Marin Water for providing content and photos for this piece so we can share about the incredible work that is happening in Marin County!
