When the Dixie Fire’s flames subsided, most of Greenville had burned to the ground. Heavy smoke blanketed the area for months. Flames ran up and down the surrounding hills and pushed, at times, onto the valley floor. Last summer, Indian Valley and the towns of Greenville, Taylorsville, and Crescent Mills were right in the middle of the Dixie Fire, the largest single-source blaze in California’s history, and one of the most destructive. Dixie Fire damages communities and blackens forests The sawmill will provide a much-needed market for fire-killed hazard trees near homesites and small landholdings and create rough-cut lumber for rebuilding communities damaged by the Dixie Fire. And it’s ultimately about more than rebuilding Greenville, it’s about rebuilding hope in the (Indian) Valley.” Jonathan Kusel- Executive Director, Sierra Institute for Community and the Environment “The importance of this new facility is not just turning low- to no-value material into something because the existing mills aren’t taking anything, we are talking about creating lumber to rebuild Greenville. Jonathan Kusel, Executive Director for Sierra Institute for Community and the Environment, spoke about the sawmill his organization is building in partnership with J&C Enterprises, and with the aid of Sierra Nevada Conservancy funding, at the SNC Governing Board meeting in December. Boards cut from trees killed by the Dixie Fire sit at the new sawmill in Crescent Mills five miles south of the town of Greenville.
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