Blue Ridge Fire Burns 56% of State Park

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While the official fire perimeter has NOT been released because it is still an active event, we digitized the perimeter provided by CAL FIRE from the briefing this morning and have estimated (not confirmed) that roughly 7,960 acres of Chino Hills State Park have burned. This amounts to 56% of the State Park. Again, this is just an estimate pulling together sources from publicly available maps and overlaying the data.

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The state hasn’t learned the lessons related to wildfire. For nearly 15 years the California Chaparral Institute has been advocating for a better outcome than vegetation removal on all our wildlands as the “answer” to stopping wildfire. It doesn’t work–we have dozens of fires to point to as proof. On Wednesday, December 11th, CalFire will consider approving its Vegetation Treatment Program’s Environmental Impact Report. The plan is to target 20 MILLION acres of native California habitat and destroy it–in the name of … Read More

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