A message from your neighbor: Chris England

With winter here, it’s not likely you’re thinking about wildfire these days. However I just sat down with officials from the DNR to discuss updating our Fire Risk Assessment and Action Plan for Firewise.  

One action that they recommend is having a “Chipper Day”. This is where landowners would bring trees, branches and brush to a pile on their property near a roadway, and crews from the DNR would come by with a chipper to chip the debris and carry away the chips, or leave them in place if the landowner prefers. The chipper could be paid for by a Firewise Micro-grant. In short all you need do is cut and gather your brush. The DNR does the rest at no cost to you. The plan here is to help you reduce fire fuel on your property.

Like anything involving government funds, these things take patience, time and planning. This is why I’m reaching out to everyone now when this “Chipper Day” will not likely occur until March sometime.

If you are interested in participating in this event please get back to me soon with your name, contact number, lot number and address. You may start clearing your brush and tree debris anytime but you should probably wait for further instructions as to where to stage the material.

We can’t say exactly when this event will happen until we know how many people want to participate, so the sooner you reply the more likely we can make this happen.

I look forward to hearing from you but I likely won’t reply until I have more information to share.

Thank you.

Chris England for Firewise

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