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The Day Fire burned approximately 162,702 acres (658.43 km 2) of both Los Padres National Forest (97.4%) and privately owned lands. [2] The fire started on the Ojai Ranger District, in the congressionally designated Sespe Wilderness. The Sespe Wilderness is under the federal jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service.
Los Padres National Forest is a United States national forest in southern and central California. Administered by the United States Forest Service, Los Padres includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,847 feet (2,697 m). [2]
The Indians Fire was a wildfire in the Ventana Wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest in the Santa Lucia Range which that started on June 8, 2008 and burned uncontained until July 10 scorching 81,378 acres (329.33 km 2) of land. [1]
The blaze, named the Post Fire, burned more than 3,600 acres near the Interstate 5 freeway in Gorman, about 62 miles northwest of Los Angeles, according to the California Department of Forestry ...
The U.S. Forest Service project would encompass about 235,495 acres of land in five counties. Massive ‘restoration project’ planned for Los Padres National Forest. Here’s what is proposed
Big Sur Fire Brigade members later learned that USFS policy at the time was to replace used or damaged equipment and replenish firefighting budgets only when the costs exceeded $10 million. Gary Koeppel, foreman of the Fire Brigade, wrote, "Many people at the time suspected that the Marble-Cone fire was allowed to burn until its cost reached ...
The majority of the fire by then was within the Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, and unified command of the fire suppression work was transferred from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to the United States Forest Service's Alaska Interagency Incident Management Team. [13] [14]
Last year’s Lake fire torched stands of old-growth Douglas fir that can serve as owl nesting and roosting refuges in the Figueroa Mountain area of the roughly 1.75-million-acre Los Padres forest ...