This week, crews of teens are working with Boulder County Wildfire Partners at the Lafayette Gardens Mobile Home Park to help residents mitigate wildfire risk. The project is at no cost to residents and funded by Boulder County’s wildfire mitigation tax.
A team of teenagers and leaders working with Teen Inc. Youth Corps, which partners with the county, is spending the summer completing the projects. So far, officials estimate the team has built barriers around a dozen mobile homes and is still knocking on doors to offer any resident in the park.
“We’re just spreading an area of gravel about two inches thick underneath it,” crew leader Hannah Mason said. “We have this weed barrier here that’ll prevent weeds from growing and keep this area nice and easy to maintain.”…