# Post Hewlett Fire Mitigation - Straw Airdrop (20120720-NRCS-LSC-9001)

Music-multimedia presentation of Post-Hewlett Gulch Fire aerial mitigation to protect the Milton L. Seaman Reservoir, the drinking water resource for the City of Greeley and Ft. Collins, Colo., on Friday, July 20, 2012. Helicopters airdroped straw onto barren, burned out tributary lands to mitigate soil and ash runoff from the mountainous terrain leading to this body of water. Rain runoff erosion has had dramatic effects in and on the normally clear mountain streams. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded three-quarters of operation. Music "The Days The Nights" by 20 20. USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: USDAgov
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_Hewlett_Fire_Mitigation_-_Straw_Airdrop_(20120720-NRCS-LSC-9001).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: USDAgov
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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