Thanks, Holly ...
Vienna ... that's a fair explanation of fuel reduction. If you look at the trees in the second photo above, you will see that there are no limbs near the ground. Initially, all of the blackberries were removed during our fuel reduction project. There is a 7' cliff there across the road that was covered with the berries which are highly inflammable.
CalFire cleared all of the brush, limbed all of the trees and thinned a lot of the trees in front of my house, my neighbors' houses and the neighbor's property above my house higher on the slope. However, Ric is right. If that meadow caught fire during the dry season, since fire moves uphill, my house would probably be gone. As long as we keep the blackberries from getting thick again, I have a chance.
The sad thing is while that doe was eating everything she could in my garden, even plants that deer don't normally eat, that meadow was just across the road and she didn't know that there was a LOT of food over there. That's a town deer.
