A couple of phone calls this week--well before fire season--confirmed that when people see smoke in the hills, they worry.
But the smoke they saw (on May 10th) was from a controlled burn in the Ashland watershed, part of AFR, the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project.
There is a science to getting forests to burn ONLY where you want them to burn, and agencies share information on that science through . We learn about what the training involves from Chris Chambers of Ashland Fire & Rescue and Jeremy Bailey of the Nature Conservancy.
