Anonymous
The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region has revised closure orders and fire prohibitions in California. These decisions will continue to be evaluated daily.
The revisions include:
1. Easing fire restrictions – Propane and gas stove use is now permitted on developed recreation sites on National Forests in California. Developed recreation sites are defined as areas which have been improved or developed for recreation such as campgrounds and day use sites.
2. Forest Closures – Six Rivers and Klamath National Forests are no longer part of the regional closure orders but may have local restrictions. Check the websites, social media accounts, or call those respective forests for specific information on what may be opening.
Seven National Forests (NF) in California remain closed: Angeles NF, Cleveland NF, Los Padres NF, Inyo NF, San Bernardino NF, Sequoia NF, and Sierra NF. This decision will continue to be reviewed daily, taking fire and weather conditions into account.
Eleven National Forests may be open to varying degrees. Visitors should contact the following National Forests for more information on their status: Eldorado NF, Klamath NF, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Lassen NF, Mendocino NF, Modoc NF, Plumas NF, Shasta-Trinity NF, Six Rivers NF, Stanislaus NF, and Tahoe NF. For additional questions, please contact your local National Forest.
“We understand how important access to national forests is to our visitors,” said Randy Moore, Regional Forester for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region. “As we evaluate fire and weather conditions on a daily basis, we will continue to make adjustments to ensure safe visitation. Our aim continues to prevent any new fires on the landscape.”
If you do intend to visit a National Forest that is open to visitors, we continue to recommend that you not travel long distances to recreate. If you or anyone in your household is feeling sick, please remain at home and plan your trip for another time. All visitors should practice self-sufficiency during your visits to national forests. Recreating responsibly will help ensure that expanded access to recreational facilities, services, and opportunities continues. Responsible recreation practices should be maintained at all times, including:
• Maintaining at least six feet distancing from others
• Do not gather in groups and please follow the latest guidance from officials
• Communicate with others as you pass. Alert trail users of your presence and step aside to let others pass
• Pack out your trash and leave with everything you bring in and use.
• All services may not be available, so please plan accordingly.
The Forest Service manages 18 National Forests in the Pacific Southwest Region, which encompasses over 20 million acres across California, and assists State and Private forest landowners in California, Hawaii and the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands. National forests supply 50 percent of the water in California and form the watershed of most major aqueducts and more than 2,400 reservoirs throughout the state. For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/R5.
The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region announces that current closure orders and fire prohibitions in California have been extended. This decision will be evaluated daily, taking fire and weather conditions into account. The fire prohibition includes building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove.
Nine National Forests (NF) in California remain closed, including Los Padres NF. This decision will continue to be evaluated on a daily basis.
“Continued closures are based on extreme fire conditions, critical limitations of firefighting resources, and to provide for firefighter and public safety,” said Regional Forester Randy Moore. “We understand how important access to the National Forests is to our visitors. Our aim is to prevent any new fires on the landscape.”
If you do intend to visit a National Forest that is open to visitors, we continue to recommend that you not travel long distances to recreate. If you or anyone in your household is feeling sick, please remain at home and plan your trip for another time. All visitors should practice self-sufficiency during your visits to national forests. Recreating responsibly will help ensure that expanded access to recreational facilities, services, and opportunities continues. Responsible recreation practices should be maintained at all times, including:
• Maintaining at least six feet distancing from others
• Do not gather in groups and please follow the latest guidance from officials
• Communicate with others as you pass. Alert trail users of your presence and step aside to let others pass
• Pack out your trash and leave with everything you bring in and use.
• All services may not be available, so please plan accordingly.
Ditto
https://www.noozhawk.com/article/lompoc_transient_faces_four_felony_arson_charges
This one is about 4 separate people –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721359/Evacuate-Wildfires-grow-Oregon-500K-flee.html
but wait! There’s more
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-wildfire-sweet-creek-fire-arson-arrest-sheriffs-office
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8731471/Man-45-arrested-starting-brush-fire-Molotov-cocktail.html
https://www.khq.com/news/arson-suspect-arrested-after-allegedly-starting-multiple-fires-in-spokane-on-monday/article_62df8a40-f223-11ea-8a02-af6f5dca5965.html
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/09/novato-police-suspected-arson-linked-to-three-fires/
Check it out. Had to dig a bit but found a chance of 0.2″ of rain next week. It’s not too promising but gotta be optimistic, right? That being said, I think your dollar is pretty safe and I hope you lose too.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/santa-barbara/ext
OK East Beach, yet you keep driving a car and assume others are as careful asl you are… but some are not, so you’d also accept “that means things like usage restrictions and temporary closures.” Hm, poor logic. What about the frontcountry trails, close them closed too? No fires near here at the moment, why be so restrictive , eh Randy Moore? Be more selective, open parts up, one size does NOT fit all.
Thanks for the patience everyone, hopefully just a little more needed. Temps this week are forecast to be in the mid/high 90’s across the forest but should start cooling dramatically towards the middle of next week AND some long range potential for rain by the end of next week. Little patience, hopefully this is the final closure. Fingers crossed for safety followed by a grand reopening.
I’m frankly shocked reading these comments. We’re in a pandemic and the worst fire season in California history. Closing the forests was a defensive move, unprecedented, and totally necessary. Look at the whiny attitudes here – ‘well I shouldn’t have to suffer!’
Do you not get that you are in not one, but two, disasters? Good heavens, learn to pull together for the good of all, please.
Sail, we’re breeding like cockroaches and the climate is changing. If we try to all live in trailers in National Forests we will get burned out on a regular basis and people will die in a horrible way. We are at 8 billion and counting. The dream of everyone living in a single family home is not feasible. Having people live in dense urban areas and keeping the open spaces for recreation and agriculture makes a lot of sense, which is why we can’t do it. Travel to Northern Spain to see what they have done there.