Forest Service personnel of Fuels Crew 41 from the Angeles National Forest and CAL FIRE remove dense brush from around NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory January 17, 2025.
Fuels Crew 41 was assigned to the Eaton Fire, North of Los Angeles. When they're not helping to suppress wildfires, they are hard at work to reduce the risk. Year round this crew takes to the hillsides to clear brush along roadways and areas where the city meets the trees.
The crew which formed in October of 2023 is the first of its kind on the Angeles National Forest and one of the first in the Forest Service. Their purpose is to specifically address growing wildfire risk to communities across thousands of acres annually.
Fire behavior modeling datasets provide the foundation for calculating risk across landscapes. The Rocky Mountain Research Station produces national datasets like this map of burn probability that can be used in the RiskMonitor process.
Students from Greenville Elementary participate in an ecotherapy field trip, near Round Valley Reservoir, California, April 25. Blake Ellis, a program manager for the Chico State Ecotherapy Program ecotherapy program guided the students to experience nature and explore their senses. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
