Aerial Mulching

Four Mile Fire burn zone mulching by helicopter. Picking up 1-4 tons of hay mulch at a time, ferrying it to denuded hillsides and dropping to stave off erosion when/if the spring rains come. Randy and Clint, crack pilots navigate canyon crosswinds, power lines and FAA guidelines NOT to fly over houses with their cargo dangling thirty feet below them. Here a Vietnam era Huey is gassed up to begin another series of drops.