Award-Winning Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan

Wildland/urban interface wildfires are a fact of life for the East Bay Hills, with the 1991 Oakland/Berkeley fire being only one during a 75-year history of fire disasters. LSA was selected by the East Bay Regional Park District to prepare an updated and comprehensive Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan that is based on sound fire-science concepts and an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that evaluates the plan. This project focuses on 13 East Bay hills parks ranging from Sobrante Ridge in El Sobrante to Lake Chabot in Castro Valley, and two shoreline parks with wildfire hazards (Point Pinole and Miller-Knox). As part of the project, LSA conducted a comprehensive wildfire hazard and natural resource assessment of all the parks to characterize and categorize the variety, type, and density of vegetation and natural resource features present in each park.

Client
East Bay Regional Park District

Services
Environmental planning; CEQA

Awards
Award of Merit, Best Practices, 2012, Northern Section California Chapter of the American Planning Association; Outstanding Environmental Resource Document of 2011, Association of Environmental Professionals