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Forests and Rangelands Success Story

Millard Recreation Site and Cabins, Vegetation Treatment Project
Angeles National Forest, California
2008

Millard Recreation Area campground site.
Millard Recreation Area campground site.

This project is located on the Los Angeles River Ranger District immediately adjacent to numerous communities at-risk from wildfires. The project area encompasses recreation sites including Millard Campground and picnic area, several hiking trails, and 20 recreation residence cabins. Ninety-one percent of wildfires on the Angeles are human-caused, a number of which start in and around developed recreation sites on or adjacent to National Forest lands.

This project is adjacent to numerous communities whose residents are represented by Fire Safe Councils. These include Altadena, Chaney Trail, and Millard Canyon Fire Safe Councils, which received $133,100 dollars for fiscal year 2008 hazardous fuels reduction projects.

The project will follow the direction of the National Fire Plan and is located within Congressional District 26 (Dreier).

The project area includes approximately 31 acres of oak stands, timbered stands and mixed chaparral. The purpose of this project is to provide for public, employee, and firefighter safety by reducing the fuel loading and arrangement around the recreation cabins, campground and picnic area. This project will also improve scenic quality in this heavy recreation use area.

Project activities include hand cutting and pruning, thinning, chipping, removal of invasive species, and public education. Among those involved in planning the project were the district resource officer, fire and fuels staff, GIS staff, biologists, botanists, archaeologists, recreation and air, soil and watershed specialists. Contractors were also utilized for some of the planning phases of the project.

This project involved scoping and public notification of 154 different agencies, groups, and individuals. The project was implemented in Fiscal Year 2008 and is expected to take three months to accomplish.

Contact: Scott Lowden, Fuels Technician, Los Angeles River Ranger District, (818)-899-1900, slowden@fs.fed.us.