Plumas Underburn Cooperative

Making the use of fire available for everyone

Citizen volunteers and wildland fire professionals working together to promote resilient forests and safe communities through the use of prescribed fire.

Where we have assisted our community:

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This is where we send out information on upcoming prescribed fire opportunities, trainings, and how we stay in touch with each other. Click the button below to join our Google Group email list.

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Logan Krahenbuhl

Position: Plumas Underburn Cooperative Program Manager
Phone: 530-927-5327
Email Address: loganl@plumasfiresafe.org

Logan joined the Plumas County Fire Safe Council in October 2022. He spent 2 years working at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve while obtaining a…

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About Plumas Underburn Cooperative

The Plumas Underburn Cooperative (PUC) is a group of landowners and community members helping each other to use prescribed fire as a management tool on private property.

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Get Involved

Why become a member? Donations to our program help us maintain our small cache of prescribed fire equipment and may cover other small programmatic…

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Prepare and Plan

The Plumas Underburn Cooperative has resources to help landowners prepare for prescribed fire. No two burns are the same, so Fire Safe Council staff and PUC volunteers are available to walk landowners through the process for their property. Check out the online resources to get started!

PUC also helps facilitate training opportunities for anyone interested in gaining prescribed fire experience, as well as formal certification through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and California State Certified Burn Boss program.

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Ways we can help

The main mission of PUC is to assist private landowners with utilizing prescribed fire as a land management goal. In addition, PUC aims to provide educational and supplementary resources for the community that are related to prescribed fire:

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Burn Status and & Permits

Two levels of authority in Plumas County primarily oversee regulation and permitting for prescribed fire.

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RX Fire Regulation in Plumas County

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News & Events

Events will be announced and recapped on our Instagram account (below) and in our monthly newsletter/email list.