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From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On September 8, 2000, the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior delivered a national plan to the President outlining steps we will take to better manage fire for the health of our communities and environment. Congress appropriated funds to support the plan, including $1.1 billion for the Forest Service in fiscal year 2001. Our National Fire Plan offers unprecedented opportunities for investing in the long-term health of the land. The growing consensus that we must restore our forests and protect our communities gives us the chance to build a constituency for active management based on ecologically conservative principals.'
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- agriculture
- catastrophic fires
- community ecology
- coniferous forests
- crown fires
- education
- fire frequency
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire regimes
- fire size
- fire suppression
- forest management
- fuel accumulation
- fuel loading
- hardwood forests
- logging
- National Fire Plan
- national forests
- natural resource legislation
- old growth forests
- pine forests
- Pinus ponderosa
- private lands
- public information
- season of fire
- thinning
- US Forest Service
- Washington
- watershed management
- wetlands
- wilderness fire management
- wildfires
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