Funded by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the Park Fire Restoration Project will reduce hazardous fuels, protect water resources, support post-fire landscape recovery, and promote the return of fire-resilient vegetation across areas burned by the 2024 Park Fire.
The Butte County Fire Safe Council is soliciting proposals from qualified contractors for mechanical cutting, grapple piling, hand cut and pile, and fire control line construction on the South Lucretia Prescribed Fire Preparation project off Lucretia Rd in Magalia. A mandatory in-person bid walk is Tuesday, June 9, 2026; bids are due Tuesday, June 23, 2026, by 4:00pm.
The Butte County Fire Safe Council is soliciting proposals from qualified contractors to provide prescribed fire support services on an as-needed basis throughout the Plumas National Forest. Bids are due Tuesday, June 16, 2026, by 4:00pm.
BCFSC has adopted the No-Cost Gravel Program, a community assistance initiative previously operated by the Rebuild Paradise Foundation that helps eligible residents place gravel in the first 5 feet of qualifying homes to support defensible space and wildfire preparedness.
As California enters peak wildfire season, CAL FIRE, the Butte County Fire Safe Council, and community partners gathered in Paradise during Wildfire Preparedness Week — a reminder that preparedness is empowerment, and that what we build, we build together.
At Chico State's This Way to Resilience Symposium, panelists explored what it means to live well in a fire-dependent ecosystem — and what it takes to get there together.
BCFSC will implement the Robinson Mill Roadside Fuels Reduction Project along Robinson Mill, Upham, and La Porte roads to create a shaded fuel break and improve wildfire safety for residents.
BCFSC, in collaboration with CAL FIRE and California Climate Investments, will carry out fuels reduction through mastication, hand cutting, lop and scattering, and hand piling in Forest Ranch.
BCFSC, in collaboration with CAL FIRE and California Climate Investments, will carry out fuels reduction through hand thinning in the Blue Oak Terrace community south of Paradise.
BCFSC facilitated a 175-acre broadcast burn in the Oroville Foothills to reduce hazardous overgrowth, protect native plant communities, and increase landscape resilience.