Truckee Hiking

Cheat With all the grass and weeds while new catches fire and spreads to mountains. Firefighters from hiking to extinguish the fire. What can we do to get the fire and how can we get rid of all weeds that spread the fire?

This applies to Reno, Lake Tahoe, Sparks, Stead, Carson City, Spanish Springs, Red Rock, Cold Springs, Truckee, and quite a few other places.

Ref 1 shows the current alert status: As of July 2, 2007-Very extreme conditions of fire across the Great Basin. This comes from the website of the Great Western Basin Coordination Center, which is all the answer of the incident in Britain and describes the basic inter-agency coordination.

Ref 2 and 3 are Web sites on BLM fuels management.

Ref 4 cheatgrass addresses and said prevention is the first line of defense against this weed. purchase seed and fodder from areas not infested by cheatgrass is a must.
A number of herbicides are available to control downy brome.