RCRC supports Senate Bill 675, authored by Senator Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara), which expands various components of California’s overall forest resilience and wildfire mitigation strategy to include prescribed grazing.
RCRC believes California must use every tool available to increase the pace and scale of fuels treatment across the state to effectively mitigate the risk of high severity wildfire. Prescribed grazing where and when appropriate is an extremely efficient and effective method of clearing overgrown brush and other fuels from around communities to prevent fires from igniting and endangering residents.
SB 675 would encourage prescribed grazing by expanding the definition of fire prevention activities to include prescribed grazing, providing grant funding by expanding the state’s Local Assistance Grant Program, and including prescribed grazing in strategies under the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity program and the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan. The bill recently passed out of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee with unanimous support and is awaiting action in the Senate Appropriations Committee. RCRC’s letter of support is available here. For more information, please contact Staci Heaton at sheaton@rcrcnet.org.