Did you know? As a result of the action taken by the Western States Governors’ Conference, Congress passed new legislation that allows federal agencies the ability to treat the forest in the vicinity of communities at risk of a wildfire. This is called the National Fire Plan.

The August 17, 2001 edition of the Federal Register identified the City of Big Bear Lake and Big Bear City as communities at high risk from a wildfire.

Big Bear Valley has not seen extensive devastation as other mountain communities have, where reportedly up to 90% tree stand mortality has occurred. Although we have seen tree mortality, a large portion of our urban forest landscape has survived and is increasing in vitality.