Horse Fire Impacts

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Horse Fire July 23-30, 2006 Corral Canyon OHV
Area Impacts
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The Horse Fire consumed 16,294 acres
1/3 of Pine Creek Wilderness 2/3 of Hauser Wilder
ness
3/4 of Corral Canyon OHV Area
Corral Canyon OHV Area with Los Pinos lookout
tower in the background
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• The Horse Fire impacted
• 79 of Corral Canyon OHV Area
• removed the vegetation adjacent to over 22 miles
  of OHV routes
  
• 11 miles of OHV routes form the boundary of 2
  Wilderness Areas
  

Corral Canyon OHV Area
Skye Valley Road A mixed use route
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Corral Canyon is the closest OHV area to San
Diego. It offers a number of highly valued
recreation opportunities. The area features
maintained trails for motorcycles, ATVs, 4X4s
and contains two developed campgrounds.
Corral Canyon Road
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OHV trails impacted by the fire(shown in red)
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Corral Canyon OHV Area
The following pictures show before and after
pictures of the OHV trails impacted by Horse Fir
e. The before pictures were taken in May June
2006 to document trail conditions. The pictures
illustrate some of the severity of the damage to
the area. They do not show the damage done by
bulldozers during the fire suppression effort.
Dozers obliterated several miles of trail in
constructing fire line that was used to help
control the Horse fire.
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Wrangler Trail 1
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Wrangler Trail
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Bronco Peak 3
Bronco Peak Trail is adopted by San Diego Four
Wheelers
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Bronco Peak 3
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Bronco Peak 3 9
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Bronco Peak 3 14a
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Bronco Peak Connector
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Junction of Bronco Peak 3 and Bronco Flats 5
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Bronco Flat 5 4c
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Junction of Bronco Flats 5 Gun Slinger 11
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Bronco Flats 6a
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Bronco Flats

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Gunslinger 113a
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Current Situation

• The Forest is in the process of planning and
  implementing a strategy that will allow OHV users
  back into Corral Canyon as soon as possible.
  Burned areas will need fencing installed to help
  keep users on designated routes. Trails that were
  obliterated by dozer line will need to be
  reconstructed.
• Patience is needed to ensure that the trails are
  put back in a sustainable condition. It will take
  time but Corral Canyon will be back.

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Example of fencing to be installed
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• Some areas will require pipe barriers because
  there will not be sufficient vegetation to keep
  users from wandering off the trail.

These pipe barriers were installed in 2000 to
help keep users on the trail
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Public Involvement

• The Forest has talked with key members of the
  local OHV community about
  
• the impacts of the fire,
• the need to physically construct barriers to
  define the designed routes and reconstruct the
  ones obliterated by fire fighting efforts,
  
• the need for volunteer, peer based, OHV patrols
  in the area,
  
• the need for volunteers to help install/maintain
  fence
  
• and the need to educate users.
• Before Corral Canyon can re-open, the damage from
  the fire must be repaired. We are looking for
  volunteers to help in this effort. If you or
  your club are willing to volunteer please contact
  Richard Tull, OHV Program Manager, at (619) 445
  6235 ext 3451 rtull_at_fs.fed.us