Property Owner Firewise and Hazard Tree Removal on Adjacent Vacant Borough Land
The Kenai Peninsula Borough is a neighboring landowner to many private property owners. The borough also encourages property owners to firewise their properties and encourages landowners to take proactive steps for the removal of hazard trees including beetle killed spruce.
It is the policy of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Land Management Division that property owners may limb, brush, and thin vegetation on vacant borough land within 100 feet of private structures as part of overall firewise measures without requiring special permission from the Land Management Division. It is also the policy of the Kenai Peninsula Borough that property owners may remove standing trees from vacant borough land that pose a direct threat of damaging private property by falling, such as beetle kill spruce along fence lines, driveways, or near buildings, without requiring special permission from the Land Management Division. Vegetation treatments within 50-feet of anadromous waters in the Habitat Protection District do require a permit from the Kenai River Center.
For more information contact the Land Management Division.
These policies are made as interpretation of KPB 17.10.250 (C) Casual Use.
More information on firewise can be found at https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/preparing-homes-for-wildfire