Twenty-two miles of inter-connected fuel breaks (800 acres) will be established with ball and chain during the next two years.
Polygon broadcast burns of 2,000 acres are planned between, and around the present Defensible Fire Zones.
2005 - Bring in 1,000 hd. of meat goats and hair sheep with full-time herders ~ to impact fire-treated and mechanically treated areas.
Sustainable Maintenance Plan
Presently, the Sunflower CRMP is carrying out a 5-year Goat Grazing Trial under the supervision of the University of California and Chico State University. The SCRMP is anticipating bringing 1,000 hd. Units of meat goats and hair sheep to keep the treated brush areas in a low serial stage. The plan is to develop a long-term sustainable low serial stage system to keep the SCRMP area fire safe and productive far into the future.
Additional Activities
December 2004 -Herbivore Conference University of California, Davis -Wolfgang Pittroff, USFS Dale Shippelhoute, BLM -Joe Molter, Landowner Tyler Dawley, Landowner Bill Burrows, SCRMP Coordinator
January 2005 -BEHAVE Conference (Animal Behavior) Utah, Landowner Bill Burrows, SCRMP Coordinator
January 2005 Holistic Management Rendezvous New Mexico - Landowner, Bill Burrows, SCRMP Coordinator
January 10, 2005 Strategic Planning Meeting Landowners and Agencies
January 24, 2005 SCRMP General Meeting Landowners and Agencies
May 7, 2005 Stewardship Day Saving Ranches and Farms and Their Way of Life
July 9, 2005 SCRMP Base Camp Barn Raising Landowners, Agencies, and Interested Parties
August 25th, 27th Goat Unloading and Goat Sponsoring Days 400 Hair sheep from Alabama and 190 Meat goats from Idaho Landowners, Agencies, and Interested Parties
September 9th thru 11th Browsing Academy Colfax Head Herdsman, Vern Clonts, Bill Burrows, Coordinator
September 10, 2005 Carlos Cordova from Junin, Peru came to be our daily Herder.
