Backfires like this are used to control the heat while protecting larger trees.
photo Credit: Ryan Stewart
A prescribed fire backs through large trees, reducing vegetation competition, recycling nutrients into the soil, and improving wildlife forage and habitat.
photo Credit: Ryan Stewart
Piles of logs and debris are burned by SCE Forestry during the winter when conditions are safe.
photo Credit: Ryan Stewart
A backfire backs downhill thinning small trees and burning forest litter at SCE's Shaver Lake forest.
photo Credit: Courtesy of Ryan Stewart
SCE Forester Ryan Stewart (left) and Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jim Fitzgerald work together to burn an area above Ely Meadow.
