BLM plays important role in fire mitigation

*Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of stories about the Sierra Madre Fire Mitigation meeting held September 9.*

Chris Otto, Fire Management Specialist with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was at the Sierra Madre Fire Mitigation meeting on September 9 to explain the BLM’s role in fire mitigation.

Otto explained there is not a lot of timber relative to the United States Forest Service (USFS) lands on BLM land, but they have had two commercial timber sales in the Encampment River Watershed area in the last seven to eight years.

The timber sales took place in the Teddy Creek area o...