Wine Country Gazette ·
Napa land trust thins 200 acres in Pickett Fire’s path
The work that stops a wildfire mostly happens before anyone smells smoke. The Land Trust of Napa County just put 200 acres of it on the ground — clearing brush and running prescribed burns on rural ridges above Angwin and Aetna Springs, some of it the same ground where last summer's Pickett Fire ran out of room.