Sandoval County tackles wildfire risk with new protection plan

Sandoval County commissioners Wednesday approved a plan intended to lessen the area’s wildfire risk.

The community wildfire protection plan is built on a strategy of denying a wildfire the fuel it needs to spread.

Fuel management is considered particularly vital along roadways, around critical infrastructure and in communities with extensive wildland-urban interface (where housing developments are near or adjacent to continuous vegetation or scattered throughout a wildland area)…

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