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Panoramic Highway Conversion
Funded by The National Park Service

The Panoramic Highway corridor is a steep narrow roadway that provides access to more than 300 homes above Mill Valley, California.This suburban neighborhood is immediately along the wildland-urban interface overlooking Muir Woods National Monument.

The project converted approximately two Acres of Monterey pine forest into annual grassland. Trees were felled and burned. Rice straw was spread to mitigate erosion hazards.

The conversion of this two acre pine forest into grassland will improve egress for 300 residents and several hundred tourists in the event of a wildfire as well as improved firefighting and apparatus ingress.

Panoramic Highway (before)  
Panoramic Highway (after)  
   
House at risk Firewise garden Homes in the wildland/urban interface