California has set up a permanent task force of National Guard members to do what used to be occasional work fighting and preventing wildfires.
Members of the National Guard's Task Force Rattlesnake clear brush and small trees to create a fireline, to deprive any fast-moving fire of fuel.Members of the National Guard's Task Force Rattlesnake clear brush and small trees to create a fireline, to deprive any fast-moving fire of fuel."In the past, [Cal Fire] could depend on the National Guard to step up when they were called on and help fill any gaps.
Just outside Nevada City, a crew walks up an abandoned logging road that smells of red cedar and damp earth. They've been reopening the road for weeks, for access and also as a potential fire-break to protect the houses further up the hill. With chainsaws axes and chippers they remove deadwood that could fuel a fire, and cut down"ladder trees" the short 10 or 20 footers, that could help a fire climb up to the giant cedars and ponderosa pines that seem to touch the sky.
Ayers is a third generation woodsman. His grandfather logged these woods. Centuries before that, Native Americans didto keep the forest healthy. But now after decades without either, and with houses built further and further into the woods, Ayers says the job is urgent — and endless — across California.
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