Wildfire Preps Underway To Protect Marin County Water Supply

CBS San Francisco

May 25, 2022

Californians often hear about people taking steps to prepare their homes and businesses for fire season. The same is being done for Marin County's water supply.

"We're in a kind of hardwood, oak woodland forest type here, so crews are removing the small diameter Douglas firs that are encroaching in them," explained Shaun Horne, Watershed Resources Manager for Marin Municipal Water District. "Douglas fir can become fuel that moves a fire up into the canopy of the forest."

On this warm May afternoon, crews were working their way up a hillside, cutting through a set of problems that have been growing beneath Mount Tam for years.

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