CA SB 1101 Introduced by Senator Limón February 13, 2024
In Committee Review
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
(1) Existing law requires all contracts entered into by a state agency for the acquisition of goods or services, as specified, to be void unless and until approved by the Department of General Services. Existing law requires a state agency to secure at least 3 competitive bids or proposals for each contract. Existing law establishes exceptions to these requirements for specified contracts.This bill would include in the list of exceptions a contract entered into by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for the purpose of providing logistical support for large-scale prescribed fire operations, as provided.
(2) Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to do certain things with respect to fires, including provide fire prevention and firefighting implements and apparatus, organize fire crew and patrols, and establish observation stations and other necessary structures.
This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to identify and map a comprehensive network of potential operational boundaries that can be used for strategic wildfire response, hazardous fuels management, and prescribed fire, as provided. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2025, and updated annually thereafter, to develop spatial mapping of the severity of impacts from wildfires, as provided. The bill would also require the department to annually review the effects of recent fires in the context of community safety and ecological restoration goals to identify priority opportunities for prescribed fire that can further manage hazardous fuel conditions.
Bill Text - SB-1101 Fire prevention: prescribed fire: state contracts: mapping. (ca.gov)
This writer takes the ‘they don’t believe in good fire’ approach. I still feel strongly that we’re better off promoting competitive wages than a Promethean narrative about unbelievers.
The Terra Fuego Resource Foundation is burning a couple hundred acres of private timberland just South of McCloud, Ca, over the next couple days. They did a couple hundred before the last round of precip, also.
Glad to see the Sierra getting a bunch of pile burning along tollhouse rd and around shaver springs. Wish they would hop over the ridge and continue on what was done off music farm road. Hopefully they’ll open the 8s08 road.
The Butte Prescribed Burn Association burned about 12 acres of grass in the outskirts of Chico yesterday. After a week of hot weather, it sounds like the grass was cured enough for the fire to carry fairly well, but the burn boss reports it didn’t burn hot enough to achieve the consumption and effects he was after. He said he thought they’d get better results in a couple of weeks.
The City of Chico FD is planning a couple hundred acres of grassland burns around the Chico Airport and in Upper Bidwell Park in early June. We’ve been burning with them 2 out of the 3 last years in Bidwell Park to reduce yellow star thistle, and got better results last year on June 22nd than we achieved burning on May 17, 2021.
The Pacific Forest Trust just put out a video about their Soda Springs Prescribed Fire project, playing out across about 1,800 acres just south of McCloud. The Terra Fuego Resource Foundation is doing the implementation of this project, which is funded by the California Wildland Conservation Board.
About 575 acres were burned this spring, and the project will resume in the fall.
