Chipping 2024 | Fire Adapted Community Trout Lake
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FACT Mobile Chipping Program: Fire Adapted Community Trout Lake (FACT), in partnership with Mt. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS), is offering a free mobile chipping program to the Trout Lake Valley. This service helps people reduce wildfire hazards on their properties by disposing of small trees, limbs, and brush.

Scheduling: Chipping will be pre-scheduled this year based on your geographic location. Click here for a map showing the "Trout Lake Wildfire Resilience Areas" and their designated chipping weeks. Find your property and identify its zone before filling out this form. 

Cost: This service is provided free of charge, but donations are welcomed and will support FACT and MARS in continuing to lead programming to increase Trout Lake's wildfire resiliency. Donate here.

Standards for piling: (see photos at the end of this form)
- Create piles along accessible road or driveway.
- All butt end of branches should face access road, stacked neatly.
- Limit piles to 4 feet tall.
- Brush is OKAY, but no green vine-y material smaller than your pinky.
- Material will be chipped into a pile or dispersed, but NOT hauled away.
- Do NOT include in your chipper piles:
      - Material larger than 8-inch diameter.
      - Material longer than 10 feet in length.
      - Logs less than 36 inches in length.
      - Dirt, rocks, stumps, rotten logs, or inorganic material.
- If you are cutting mostly ponderosa pine, please cut all material within 30 days of scheduled chipping to minimize chance of pine engraver beetle outbreaks. (Learn more here.)

Process: Chipping will be limited to approximately two hours per site. We can process a lot of material in that time, but NOT a huge jumbled slash pile, remains from logging or land-clearing, etc. Neatness counts! The neater the limbs are stacked, the more work the crew can accomplish. Maximize efficiency by having all limbs face the same direction, butts-out toward where the chipper will pull up nearby, and no more than 4’ tall.

More information:
Click here for more information about defensible space (where and how to remove hazardous fuels around your property for wildfire risk mitigation).
Click here to access the Trout Lake Wildfire Mitigation Guide.
Questions? Contact Sarah Allaben at 440-497-8224 or sarah@mtadamsstewards.org
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Email *
Name *
Phone number *
Address *
Acreage of your property *
Use this map to determine what "zone" your property belongs to. This will determine your designated chipping week. *
If you're not located in Trout Lake, select "Not in any of the Trout Lake Zones" in the dropdown below. Need help? Contact sarah@mtadamsstewards.org
Can you commit to having your piles ready by the designated week for your area? *
Are you interested in setting up a free 30-minute wildfire risk assessment for your home? *
Are you interested in RECEIVING additional wood chips from other residents? *
Anything else we should know?
Note: We'll reach out to you again 2-3 weeks before your scheduled chipping to gather info about your pile location/size and what you'd like us to do with the wood chips.
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