- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
![Excavator clears understory vegetation as part of a fuel break. (Photo: USDA)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/61861small.jpg)
The Federal Government has proposed spending $55 to $192 million to clear large swaths of land in the Western U.S. to create fuel breaks that slow the spread of wildfire, reported Brady McCombs of the Associated Press. The fuel breaks will be managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah.
Fuel breaks are a useful tool if used along with other wildfire prevention methods that can keep firefighters safer and potentially help out in broad scopes of land because they are long and thin, said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, the area fire...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
![Fuel breaks, like this one in Yuba County, can help firefighters limit the spread of wildfire. (Photo: UC Regents)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/33204small.jpg)
In the small, forested Shasta County community of Shingletown, fuel breaks were successful in limiting the destruction of the 2014 Eiler Fire, reported Jeremy Linder on KRCR TV in Northern California. Linder's story centered on a tour for fire agency representatives presented by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources forestry experts.
UC ANR Cooperative Extension hosted the tour to bring together the different agencies that can collaborate fighting fires, managing forests and building and maintaining fuel breaks to arrest the spread of wildfire.
"Part of the...