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San Pedro Bay Landowners Association Perry District
About San Pedro Bay
The San Pedro Bay is a hydrologic feature that consists of a large land area covering portions of Taylor, Madison, Lafayette, and Dixie Counties in the Florida Big Bend. At one time this area was open bay water. Changes were implemented in the area during the mid-20th century to make portions of it suitable for pulpwood production.
The San Pedro Bay area today consists primarily of a mixture of pine flatwoods (planted and aerial seeded) and isolated forested wetlands with vast areas of organic soil (muck). Due to short pulpwood rotations, fuel management in this area is limited, which leads to heavy fuel buildups (as high as 96 tons/acre in some areas). These heavy fuel buildups and muck soils, combined with the area's remoteness and inaccessibility, make the San Pedro Bay area notorious for damaging wildfires.
About the San Pedro Bay Landowners Association
The San Pedro Bay Landowners Association consists of landowners, land managers, state agencies, county governments and other interested parties working together as a unified team in forest resource protection. Activities include wildfire preplanning, hazard mitigation and other wildfire prevention efforts in and around the San Pedro Bay area.
Wildfire Hazard Mitigation
Concentrated in areas of high risk because of the proximity of homes to areas of high risk wildland fuels, the Perry District uses both equipment and manpower to conduct vegetation management work using prescribed fire and mechanical reduction of fuels, with additional assistance from a regional Florida Forest Service Mitigation Team as needed. Often, as areas are developed and infill occurs, high fire danger areas become low fire danger areas. If you live in an area with dense vegetation surrounding your property, there are steps you can take to better safeguard you, your family and your property against wildfire.
Learn how to make your home, business or community less vulnerable to wildfires by contacting a Wildfire Mitigation Specialist.
Wildfire Prevention
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A Partnership of Cooperation
- A-1 Development Inc.
- American Forest Management
- Bailey Brothers
- Bielling Site Preparation
- Campbell Global
- Dixie County Emergency Management
- F&W Forestry Services
- Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Florida Forest Service
- Florida Highway Patrol
- Four Rivers Timber & Land Company
- The Forestry Company
- Georgia Pacific
- Jowett & Wood Inc.
- Keen Forest Management
- Lafayette County Emergency Management
- Lyme Timber Company
- Madison County Emergency Management
- Mutual Land Company
- Shaw’s Site Preparation
- Suwannee River Water Management District
- Taylor County Emergency Management
- T.W. Byrd & Sons
- Wildland Fire Services
