Carson Hiking
Carson Hiking
What about fire danger in the Great Basin and Washoe County?
With all the Cheat Grass and new weeds everything catches fire and spreads up mountains. Firefighters have to hike to fires to put them out. What can we do to get the fire out and how do we get rid of all the weeds that spread the fire?
This applies to Reno, Lake Tahoe, Sparks, Stead, Carson City, Spanish Springs, Red Rock, Cold Springs, Truckee, and quite a few other places.
Ref 1 indicates the current alert status: As of July 2, 2007-Very High to Extreme fire conditions across the Great Basin. This comes off the website of the WESTERN GREAT BASIN COORDINATION CENTER, which is all about incident response in the Great Basis and describes interagency coordination.
Refs 2 and 3 are BLM websites about fuels management.
Ref 4 addresses cheatgrass and says: Prevention is the first line of defense against this weed. Buying seed and forage from areas not infested by cheatgrass is a must.
A number of herbicides are available to control cheatgrass.
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