The CAL fire hand crew program provides wildland fire training to its participants, have CAL fire supervision, and its crews are available for hazardfuels reduction and public conservation projects

Projects include: critical hazard fuel reduction activities (e.g., cutting, piling, mowing, weedeating, brushing, chipping) will be conducted around historic structures in the bald hills, including ELK camp barn, dolason barn, lyons ranch barn and bunkhouse, long ridge barn, coyote barn, coyote cabin site, and dooleyville cabin, as well as the schoolhouse lookout. Burn unit preparation will include clearing brush and trees, road brushing and chipping, installing handlines down to mineral soil where needed, cutting and removing encroaching trees and shrubs from OAK stands and adjacent grasslands, and splitting and stacking firewood. Assistance will be provided for pile burning and broadcast burning. Additionally, shaded fuel break maintenance and construction will take place between bald hills road and the park boundary, as well as at hiouchi shaded fuelbreak, wolf creek road shaded fuelbreak, wolf creek outdoor school, howland hill outdoor school, and wolf creek fire cache.