For questions about fire prevention and mitigation in Zone 3, contact Colorado Mastication at (719)400-9104. While the first two zones are the most important for your house, if you have property boundaries in Zone 3, you need to know how to protect the land. This is likely if you have more than an acre of land. Zone 3 is the wildland. Fires that start away from the home will use Zone 3 as a way to build up intensity. You can control that and slow the fires down. Managing Wildland in Zone 3 In this zone, you’re cutting the tree limbs to between four and six feet from the ground. Preventing the ladder fuel is the best way to slow
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Throughout most of the western areas of the United States, especially in the mountain areas, you’ll find the ponderosa pines growing in the lower elevations. They stick between grasslands, and often sit on the north-facing slopes for the moisture and shade. The ponderosa pines will mix in with Douglas firs around the areas, but there are some that are pure ponderosa areas. The areas these two types of trees grow in are problematic when it comes to wildfires. Why Ponderosa Pines Are at Risk of Fire Fires tend to start at the lower elevations. The grasslands offer the perfect fuel sources, and the young ponderosa trees end up dying. They don’t have the thick bark and deep roots that mature