Prescribed Burning and Public Awareness: A NonProfit Organization

1234 N. Way Street

Redding, CA
Contact: Megan Primmer
Telephone: (509) 413-6224
HOLD UNTIL: 5/1/15
E-mail: prim2536@vandals.uidaho.edu

Release Date: 5/1/15

TAKING CONTROL: EDUCATION AIMS TO PREVENT WILDFIRES

Area Non-Profit Beings Campaign to Reduce Wildfires
REDDING, Calif. (April 23, 2015.) An educational campaign about the benefits of
prescribed burning to begin in mid-May was announced yesterday.
Prescribed Burning and Public Awareness will utilize television broadcasts, radio public
service announcements and mailed brochures starting May 15. Information about the benefits
and consequences of prescribed burning can be found at the web address pbpa.org after May 1st.
Educational links providing opportunities for further investigation will also be available.
The campaign will be targeting individuals living in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
of the northern California counties: Del Norte, Siskiyous, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta,
Lassen, Mendocino, Tehama, Butte, Plumas, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Lake and
Nevada.
Prescribed Burning and Public Awareness hopes to see increased involvement at public
forums dealing with prescribed burning and land management throughout northern California by
the end of the year.
Currently, public approval of prescribed burning is high. Unfortunately, individuals who
approve of this control tactic arent getting involved with management decisions or reaching out
to share opinions. A participant from a Hamilton, MT focus group said, I think what happens

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Prescribed Burning and Public Awareness: A NonProfit Organization

1234 N. Way Street
Redding, CA
Burning News Release pg. 2

when we have a prescribed burn is the majority of people say, Well, thats something that has to
be done. And [then] theres a minority of people that complain about it, but they get their name
in the paper.

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Prescribed Burning and Public Awareness is a newly created non-profit group designed to
educate individuals within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) of northern California about the
benefits of prescribed burning in their regions. A reduction in the severity and frequency of
California wildfires during the current drought creates urgency for the assimilation of this
information and quick changes in land management practices. The goal of PBPA is to educate
individuals in northern California about the benefits of prescribed burning and to encourage
becoming more involved in area land management decisions.

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