Aerial seeding after wildfire

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Aerial seeding after wildfire
Aerial seeding after wildfire

Staff from our Eagle Lake Field Office launched an aerial assault of sorts last week, as they used a contract airplane to drop more than 9 tons of shrub and grass seed on rugged, inaccessible wildlife habitat burned in last summer's 105,000-acre Beckwourth Complex wildfire in Plumas and Lassen counties.

Seeding was done primarily on the hillsides above the small Lassen County community of Doyle. Mule deer will benefit from the regrowth of the antelope bitterbrush and native grasses that were seeded on more than 2,300 acres, which is just under half of the BLM-managed lands impacted by the fire. Next, the staff will work on planting seedlings of Lassen County bitterbrush, a species endemic to the high desert lands between Susanville and Sierra County.

The Beckworth Complex was the merger of two lightning-caused fires that burned from late June until September 22 last year. It destroyed 33 homes in the community of Doyle in addition to impacting national forest lands, public rangelands and private property.
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Taken on: February 10, 2022
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