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Nevada County Fire Safe Council is seeking volunteers for the 2021 free residential green waste disposal days in Grass Valley and Truckee. There are eight days (16 shifts) in Grass Valley and three days (6 shifts) in Truckee. Volunteers can sign up for both sites and multiple shifts if they like.
Grass Valley: Early shift 6:45 to 11 a.m.; late shift 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dates available: Friday, May 21; Saturday, May 22; Sunday, May 23; Monday, May 24; Friday, June 11; Saturday, June 12; Sunday, June 13; Monday, June 14
Truckee: Early shift 7:45 to 11 a.m.; late shift 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dates available: Friday, May 14 ; Friday, June 4; Friday, June 25
Forty-year rural Nevada County resident John LeLange looks out over his 11-acre property Wednesday off Dixon Road that was recently masticated and abated of fire prone vegetation. LeLange’s property sits within the Ponderosa West Grass Valley Defense Zone shaded fuel break.
Photo: Elias Funez
The Ponderosa West Grass Valley Defense Zone project is close to wrapping up, with about 907 acres of land having been cleared of potential wildfire fuel out of a target of 1,200 acres.
An additional 60 acres are expected to be cleared by the end of April, with homeowners in these parcels having agreed to have their properties abated, said Jamie Jones, executive director of the Nevada County Fire Safe Council. The remaining 200-250 acres in the defense zone are owned by homeowners who have not yet responded to the county’s request to treat their properties for fuel abatement.