Living With Fire used by permission from the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.

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1 Living With Fire used by permission from the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.

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7 34%0 4(2%% )3 4(%2%! #/.4).5/53 $%.3% #/6%2 /& 3(25"3 /242%%3 02%3%.47)4(). 4(% 2%#/--%.$%$ $%&%.3)",% 30!#%!2%! 3OMETIMES WILDLAND PLANTS CAN OCCUR AS AN UN INTERRUPTED LAYER OF VEGETATION AS OPPOSED TO BEING PATCHY OR WIDELY SPACED INDIVIDUAL PLANTS 4HE MORE CONTINUOUS AND DENSE THE VEGETATION THE GREATER THE WILDlRE THREAT )F THIS SITUATION IS PRESENT WITHIN YOUR DEFENSIBLE SPACE AREA YOU SHOULD hbreak IT UPv BY PROVIDING A SEPARATION BETWEEN PLANTS OR SMALL GROUPS OF PLANTS.OT ONLY ARE STEEP SLOPES OFTEN CONSIDERED HIGH WILDlRE AREAS THEY ARE ALSO HIGHLY ERODABLE 7HEN REMOVING SHRUBS AND TREES FROM STEEP SLOPES KEEP SOIL DISTURBANCE TO A MINIMUM!LSO IT MAY BE NECES SARY TO REPLACE mammable VEGETATION WITH OTHER PLANT MATERIALS TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE SOIL EROSION #ONTINUOUS DENSE UNINTERRUPTED VEGETATION 0ATCHYVEGETATION OR WIDELY SPACED INDIVIDUAL PLANTS 2ECOMMENDED 3EPARATION $ISTANCES FOR 3HRUBS 0INYON AND *UNIPER &OR AREAS WITH DENSE BRUSH OR THICK PINYON AND JUNIPER TREES THE RECOMMENDED SEPARATION DISTANCE IS DEPEN DANT UPON SHRUB HEIGHT AND STEEPNESS OF SLOPE 3PECIlC RECOMMENDATIONS ARE PRESENTED BELOW 490%3 /& $%!$ 6%'%4!4)/.!.$ 2%#/--%.$%$ 02!#4)#% $%!$ &5%, 490% 2%#/--%.$%$ 02!#4)#% 34!.$).' $%!$ 42%% 2EMOVE ALL STANDING DEAD TREES FROM WITHIN THE DEFEN SIBLE SPACE AREA $/7. $%!$ 42%% $%!$ 3(25"3 $2)%$ '2!33%3!.$ 7),$&,/7%23 $%!$.%%$,%3,%!6%3 "2!.#(%3 #/.%3 /. 4(% '2/5.$ 2EMOVE ALL DOWN DEAD TREES WITHIN THE DEFENSIBLE SPACE AREA IF THEY HAVE RECENTLY FALLEN AND ARE NOT YET EMBEDDED INTO THE GROUND $OWNED TREES THAT ARE EM BEDDED INTO SOIL AND WHICH CANNOT BE REMOVED WITHOUT SOIL DISTURBANCE SHOULD BE LEFT IN PLACE 2EMOVE ALL EX POSED BRANCHES FROM AN EMBEDDED DOWNED DEAD TREE 2EMOVE ALL DEAD SHRUBS FROM WITHIN THE DEFENSIBLE SPACE AREA /NCE GRASSES AND WILDmOWERS HAVE DRIED OUT OR hcured v CUT DOWN AND REMOVE FROM THE DEFENSIBLE SPACE AREA 2EDUCE THICK LAYERS OF PINE NEEDLES TO A DEPTH OF TWO INCHES $O NOT REMOVE ALL NEEDLES 4AKE CARE NOT TO DISTURB THE hduffv LAYER DARK AREA AT THE GROUND SURFACE WHERE NEEDLES ARE DECOMPOSING IF PRESENT 2EMOVE DEAD LEAVES TWIGS CONES AND BRANCHES $%!$.%%$,%3,%!6%3 "2!.#(%3!.$ 47)'3 /4(%2 4(!. /. 4(% '2/5.$ 2EMOVE ALL DEAD LEAVES BRANCHES TWIGS AND NEEDLES STILL ATTACHED TO LIVING TREES AND SHRUBS TO HEIGHT OF FEET ABOVE GROUND 2EMOVE ALL DEBRIS THAT ACCUMULATES ON THE ROOF AND IN RAIN GUTTERS ON A ROUTINE BASIS AT LEAST ONCE ANNUALLY &)2%7//$!.$ /4(%2 #/-"534)",% $%"2)3,OCATE lrewood AND OTHER COMBUSTIBLE DEBRIS WOOD SCRAPS GRASS CLIPPINGS LEAF PILES ETC AT LEAST FEET UPHILL FROM THE HOUSE.OTE 3EPARATION DISTANCES ARE MEASURED BETWEEN CANO PIES OUTERMOST BRANCHES AND NOT BETWEEN TRUNKS &OR EXAMPLE IF YOUR HOME IS LOCATED ON A SLOPE AND THE BRUSH IS FOUR FEET TALL THE SEPARATION DISTANCE WOULD BE TWO TIMES THE SHRUB HEIGHT OR EIGHT FEET 4HE RECOM MENDED SEPARATION DISTANCE CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY REMOVING PLANTS OR THROUGH PRUNING THAT REDUCES THE DIAMETER OR HEIGHT OF SHRUBS SHORTER HEIGHT MEANS LESS SEPARATION IS NEEDED 2EMOVAL WORKS BEST FOR SAGEBRUSH &OR SHRUBS WHICH READILY RESPROUT SUCH AS GREENLEAF MANZANITA AND SNOWBRUSH PRUNING TO REDUCE HEIGHT MAY BE THE BEST APPROACH

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