Team Accomplishments: Round 3

·All members of the team are certified as Class A sawyers.
·In Black Mountain the team spent time preparing an area for a prescribed burn.
·The team hand cut, limbed and piled a two mile, 20-30 foot wide stretch of line.
·The team chipped 90% of the cut materials.
·The team dug a quarter mile of hand line for the unit that is scheduled to burn this spring.
·The team also spent time in Black Mountain training.
·We learned how to make chain for a chainsaw, and how to use a grinder to sharpen the chain.
·We also refreshed our knowledge on maps and using compasses.
·In Woodland Park the team spent two weeks working with the fuels crew limbing and bucking 10 acres of tornado blowdown.
·We also constructed a barbed wire fence, by digging post holes, installing wooden and metal posts, stringing barbed wire around it, and constructing a gate.
·In the Cimarron National Grasslands the team spent two weeks landscaping at the Tunnerville Work Center eliminating fire hazards and improving the aesthetics of the area.
·In Leadville, Co the team cut, limbed and scattered an 18 acre unit, thinning the materials and providing firewood for members of the community.
·The team participated in a 100 acre prescribed burn by lighting, holding the line and mopping up.