Resilient Forest Restoration: Protecting Communities in Wildland Urban Interface (Big Sur Land Trust)

The project will reduce hazardous fuel loads at Mitteldorf Preserve, a property of Big Sur Land Trust (BSLT), using low-impact forest management practices such as chipping, burn piling, lop-and-scatter, and mastication across 60 acres of old-growth redwood and transition habitat.

By removing ladder fuels and dense understory, the project will lower the risk of high- severity wildfire spreading toward the nearby communities of Carmel, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach, and Carmel Highlands. The work will also ready the site for future prescribed and potential cultural burns that can be used to maintain forest health and resilience into the future.