I really appreciate the communication from FBM. You are doing a good job. "Water Availability" pursuing NID to bring water lines into more areas such as Quaker Hill Cross Road, etc. SECURITY ON A COMPREHENSIVE BASIS The NID water line on Banner Lava Cap, where is this issue at this point. Any info as to timeline, cost to connect etc. Thank you for putting your energy and time into the mountain we all call home. Your efforts make it feel so much more neighborly and safe to be here, and helps us learn how to care for this beautiful area! Continue to make visible / promote progress on high speed Internet projects including Gigabit. Thanks for all your work & communications. 1 Security - I'm concerned about what I'm 'guessing' is that areas (e.g.parking lot near Banner Mt. trail head path to canal... )are used for casing homes & or drug biz.etc. (mailbox theft etc.). As example, while walking, I see 2 cars side by side $ (being exchanged) often these are cars w/tinted windows, (Not to say, all people w/tinted windows are criminals). 2 People using B.M. as a Trash dumping place (esp.on trash pickup days). Or along Trails! 3 Air Quality - General. Plus OVER cutting of LRG. Trees; educating Members. of their Value Against Fire & our Quality of Life in General. 4 Use of Round Up/Pesticides reaching Groundwater - Aquifer H2o & H2o general over use (watering Lrg. lawns, pools etc.) - Awareness regarding The Drought not going away. THANKS for your Time and Continued support of our FBM Community!
How would you feel about providing links to service providers for home and grounds maintenance who have worked in the Banner area? With recommendations. Future development of woodland properties. State of people's wells. Would like to see some way to force property owners to maintain their front free of 6 or 8 cars, junk to sell (going on for years at the top of Idaho-Maryland), etc. I think we might be able to work with local contractors to get group prices on tree work, brush clearing, security patrols, and lots of other things. As a group we have some clout. That we can cross Brunswick at Idaho-Maryland. Social issues which effect quality of life for all NC residents. Neighbor continuity and aesthetics quality of life for ur residents Thanks to board members for serving. Report road conditions when it snows. (Banner/Idaho- Maryland) Alerts when there is extreme weather to be concerned about at our elevation. Keeping on top of security issues should be a priorty.
It seems only logical that burn permits should be required long before May 1. Our neighbor almost caught our house on fire.. and all of Banner Mt. because there were no burn rules in April 2015 (and they allowed a burn day with 45 MPH winds.) He left his pile unattended and with no water source nearby. When we called the fire dept as flames were soaring, they said they could do nothing because he was not breaking any rules. Check out the rules for "no burn permit required"...appalling! to say the least. We were told it was up to the legislature to change this. We did not sleep for 3 nights watching to make sure the embers did not fly. It also is not required to put your burn pile out at night. He let it go for days until it went out itself...all legal. Turned out, many trees were singed. Not sure what FBM could do, but all should know how unbelievable these rules-rather no rules-are. Of course, we are against any burning, but that concept will probably not fly in this county. Well water management & regulation NID plans and activities Land development plans Building Permits applied for Building and Zoning exemptions applied for Building Permits issued Traffic, road closures (private and public) Timber harvests Economical issues affecting Banner Mountain Better street signs Thanks for the work you do. Love FBM. My BIGGEST concern is the lack of attention some neighbors show to managing wildfire fuel. Especially on the lower Brunswick side. if wildfire hits that section of the hill, we are in big trouble.
Neighborhood watch, community gatherings, improved water for fish and wildlife in Cascade ditch, education and banning of herbicides, round-up and other toxic sprays & weed controls that poison our groundwater; &, to protect Bee's, Butterflies and Birds, animals,food chain etc. Scotch broom removal and other ways to fire protect the entire region, not just my property. Explain the evacuation procedures for when there is a major fire or hazardous event. How much time will I need to get out? What should I pack? Where should I go? When can I come back? How will I be notified? Law enforcement activity in the area. How to get people to clean up junk around their property. Speeding on Banner Lava Cap Road. Removing Waste Management trash containers from pick up sites during the week. Putting a sign and cross walk where the DS canal crosses Banner Lava Cap. I have seen many near misses there. I think it would be interesting if we could schedule some Banner Mtn Lookout tours. Might be a bit of a fund-raiser; you could ask for donations. You also might generate interested in volunteers to man the tower this summer. Tim A The Firewise Committee needs to become much more active and visible in order to address the issues cited in my comment above. Also I note lots of young scotch broom blooming along Banner-Lava Cap from Pittsburgh Mine Rd. to the west.
Thanks for putting out the survey. I wish something could effectively be done about property owners that allow overgrowth and dead and downed trees to create an extreme fire hazard for the entire area of Banner Mountain. There are 15 privately owned acres behind Crystal Wells Rd. that would be an inferno if it ever caught fire. Not the Fire Safety people, the Fire department nor the Dist. 1 supervisor addressed the issue. I was told to get a lot of people to complain and maybe something could be done. Is that the measure of significance for fire danger? How many people you can get to complain rather than the severity of the situation and the possibility of a fire storm? Lobby County Supervisors to put some teeth in the County Fire Plan to require residents in County residential areas to make a reasonable effort to reduce hazardous fuels on their properties. Everyone in our neighborhood has made some reasonable effort to reduce hazardous fuels except for one property owner. This owner has absolutely no financial problem regarding accomplishing this, but seems to have no concern for the fire hazard he is creating. He rents the residence on the property so he has no real personal concern about a catastrophic fire in the neighborhood. If the house on his property burns he can collect the insurance and build a new house there. Many properties,especially at the top of Banner and Idahomaryland have junk around,many cars, one seems to be in the business of selling stuff from his front yard and drive for years now. I wonder if anything can be done about it. Kudos to Jeff Peach for keeping us informed. Thanks for all your good work in keeping us informed! The email blasts are the most useful way to get info from FBM. Most everyone has email, not all will have FB. It would be great to have a FBM website so members could ask for services, provide services, sell stuff, etc.
scotch broom while there still isn't much of it on Banner More police patrols I used my FBM card at B&C yesterday. To my surprise the cashier said very few people use the card for the discount. Maybe some of the members have forgotten a 5% discount is available. Thank you for all of your work to make Banner Mt as special as it is. We could use help obtaining homeowners insurance for those of us considered in a wild fire zone. Volunteering events around the county would be great to see here. Hi Jeff and all on the Board. You are doing a great job with this newsletter. The only thing I would recommend is that when something happens - a bear problem, break-in or other, that a general location is given. I would guess that you cover everything from Cascade Shores to Red Dog to Banner Lava Cap to Idaho Maryland. (and perhaps more) A huge area - perhaps you do this, but I did question one time where something happened. Perhaps it is based on the emails you get from people and you don't have any control of the info they send. Thanks for the info on the Altair Logging that is happening. It would be a cool thing to have a field trip there - to see what it looks like beforehand and after. Good example of firesafe planning. And for information - the Forestview, Treetop and North View neighborhoods are in the beginning stages of forming a Neighborhood Watch group in conjunction with the Nevada County Sheriff. Thanks again! Great communcations! Love your information.
After weekly trash pick-up, we notice litter along Banner Lava Cap, and you might want to suggest residents or interested parties get out to keep our road clean and litterfree. You're doing a great job keeping residents informed. Thank you. Thanks for the job you do. I appreciate your selection of topics and related comments. Keep up the great work. Love the facebook posts and emails. Much improved recently. Scotch broom removal We live on Crystal Wells Rd and have been fighting to get a 15 acre parcel cleaned up that is situated directly behind us and many other residents on Crystal Wells. It poises a huge fire danger for ALL the residents on Banner Mtn. We have attended the Fire meeting each year and voiced the same concerns. Reached out to Fire Captain Terry McMahon for help, written letter to our neighbors. Still no response or action from property owner Mimi Boardman. Maybe with the help of FBM we can get some attention for this matter. Thanks Anita Thanks for keeping us informed. Noise levels of neighbors and people letting their dogs roam freely. Some of us have other animals that dogs enjoy chasing and killing.