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An informational public meeting, regarding the proposed hazardous fuels removal project for Tehachapi Mountain Park, will be held on Thursday, May 11, at 6 p.m. in the West Park Activity Center located at 410 W. D St.This important fuels project is designed to remove the dead and dying trees covering more than half of the park’s forested acres. The dead and diseased vegetation, the result of years of insect infestation, drought and heavy overgrowth, creates extremely hazardous wildfire conditions leaving the Tehachapi Valley vulnerable to devastation as severe as that seen in the San Bernardino wildfires of a few short years ago. Elements such as slope, aspect and tree size cause the existing trees to fight for adequate nutrients and water. As in all of nature, the strong survive leaving the rest to languish and eventually die creating brittle kindling for a life-threatening wildfire event.A healthy forest supports from 50 to 150 trees per acre — depending upon tree...
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