Within the next few weeks, the Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM) begins a nearly 600-acre fuels reduction project south of Prescott Valley, northwest of Dewey, and southeast of the Stoneridge neighborhood as part of community wildfire protection and healthy forest initiatives.
The Charcoal Gulch fuels reduction project includes mastication and hand work to 590 acres of State Trust Land strategically designed to interrupt continuity of fuels to slow potential wildfires and provide firefighters an advantage with suppression efforts.