The Santa Clara County FireSafe Council is waiting on approval of a state $400,000 grant to set up a South Bay Prescribed Burn Association.

Prescribed fire is the intentional and conditional use of fire on a landscape, according to a definition provided by a Stanford University report published in August on prescribed fires on the West Coast. It has several benefits, including preventing high-intensity wildfires by reducing tinder, restoring habitats and watersheds and supporting carbon and forest resilience. Prescribed burn associations are local groups of private prescribed fire practitioners who help conduct burns on each other’s lands, the report said. There are already 27 prescribed burn associations in California, according to Stanford’s report.

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