Major Landowner Collaborations
Protection Beyond District Lines
Much of the wildfire risk facing Sleepy Hollow doesn’t sit on land the District owns or controls — it sits on the hillsides and open space around it. So for nearly twenty years, SHFPD has built direct relationships with the neighbors who do control that land.
Building Relationships Over Time
It started small: a 2005 vegetation-management partnership with San Domenico School to remove hazardous trees flagged by County fire officials.
In 2009, the District helped fund standpipe and irrigation upgrades at Hidden Valley School’s athletic fields — work that also turned those fields into a staging area fire crews could use during a major emergency. By 2014, SHFPD was funding fire-road repairs linking San Domenico’s campus to the Marin County Open Space District’s (MCOSD) Terra Linda–Sleepy Hollow Divide, and connecting Mather Road to Oak Manor through Triple C Ranch.
Nearly a decade of groundwork paid off in 2018, when Rocking H Ranch, San Domenico School, Triple C Ranch, and MCOSD launched a joint grazing project — using livestock to clear flammable vegetation across all of their combined land.