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The mountains of Cehegín, the second largest forest of Murcia, are being conditioned to avoid the spread of fire, because this would entail all natural tragedy.

Councilman Montes, Joaquín Marín, visited the cleanup work being done by forest, which are embellishing all existing auxiliary belts (forest tracks), replacing the controversial fire, which were discontinued in the mid- 70's.

They have spared no means to carry out their tasks as efficiently as possible, with numerous teams for pruning, cutting, grinding and cleaning areas, and even by using the truck that recently released.

While in the mountains of Cehegín never been a big fire, those responsible have not lowered their guard and will be until the summer engaged in tree trimming and removal of all trash generated, as the dead branches.

Also fix the top of the pines located in the strips, because in case of fire, avoid that spreads through the treetops.

Still, he is very careful to preserve the native plants that harbor these mountains, such as strawberry, which this year have a bumper crop, due to the large amount of rainfall during the month of October.

According to the councilman Joaquín Marín, "in Cehegín we are lucky to have this large area of forest so close to the village, where now we will work to open new and better signposted hiking trails."

The mountains of Cehegín, characterized by low rainfall and the abundance of organic fuel, are composed of more than 10,000 acres of public forests.

Alongside Espuña are considered as' the lungs of the Murcia Region. "

The Sierra de Burete was described by Brussels as SPAs (Special Protection Area for birds), because she lives in a large variety of birds, of which there are several types of eagle (real, Bonelli, toed ...), which live with the fauna of the area, such as hares, rabbits, pigs, partridges, quails, etc..

Moreover, its flora is very rich, as it has Aleppo pines, junipers, mastic, rosemary, thyme, black hawthorn, oak, thickets, tow, strawberry and Kermes oak, among others.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín