From monitoring to tactics & procedures, to finances & training we're taking actions to rehab dozer lines thanks to ongoing fundraising efforts. This is a followup story to: The Lahaina Banyan Tree and the Fallen Pitch Pine. Written by Mindy Block, Quality Parks Founder & President Pictured above is what a dozer line looks like. It has been scraped to mineral soil, compacted, and its topsoil plowed into piles. The dozer line encourages illegal dumping and invasive species. How can we best undo the damage and rehab these fire breaks?
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According to the Hawaiian arborist Steve Nimz, the Lahaina Banyan tree has a chance of survival with triage[1]." The fallen pitch pine was never given such a chance. Written by Mindy Block, Quality Parks Founder & President I didn't think we'd get wildfire smoke like LA, then came the Canadian wildfires. I didn't thin we'd ever experience a western fire, then we had the 1999 wildfire season. And I never thought a whole village would be destroyed, and now there is Lahaina (and Paradise, Oregon, in 2018). My area of focus in on post rehab. A background, there was a recent fire at the Calverton Ponds Preserve in June, 2023. Lack of rain set up a fire situation where bulldozers created fire breaks. The following month I arrived on the scene dismayed. There is still no procedure in place to restore from dozer lines, and that why I created this donation campaign. Any donation amount wild be greatly appreciated.
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