Four Corners 1958: A Cooperative Fuel-Break Demonstration

Abstract

The Four-Corners Fuel-Break is within the 1956 Inaja burn, in the San Diego River drainage just above El Capitan Reservoir–a critical source of local water in San Diego County. When completed the break will connect cleared areas near Four Corners with open land near the river. The break, part of the pre-attack plan, will provide an excellent line location to cut off a fire originating on the north side of the river either below or above the break. Fuel-Breaks of this kind in the original brushfields would have helped greatly in confining the Inaja fire to a smaller acreage.

Citation

Cleveland National Forest; California Division of Foresetry, San Diego County; Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 1959. Four Corners 1958: A Cooperative Fuel-Break Demonstration. Fuel-Break Report No. 1. Berkeley, Calif.: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 4 p.