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[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Charnley, Adams
Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Bertone-Riggs, Goulette, Schultz, Shively
Passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Forest Service’s 10-year Wildfire Strategy signal a new era of historic investments in ecosystem restoration and wildfire risk reduction in the western U.S. But as initial projects and…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Iniguez, Evans, Dadashi, Young, Meyer, Thode, Hedwall, McCaffrey, Fillmore, Bean
Managed wildfires, i.e., naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefits, have the potential to reduce fuel loads, minimize the effects of future wildfires, and restore critical natural processes across many forest landscapes. In…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
In the past two decades, a rapid escalation of extreme wildfire behavior, accompanied by significant increases in risk to responders and citizens, home and property losses, costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have been observed. In the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Cissel
Recommendation 3 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board over a decade ago stated that "The process of tool use including comparison, selection, acquisition, training, implementation, evaluation, and support needs national…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Schoennagel, Nelson
The US National Fire Plan (NFP) is among the largest forest-restoration initiatives worldwide, removing wildland fuels on about 11 million hectares and costing over $6 billion. We evaluated the extent to which areas treated under the NFP-from 2004…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Nelson, Theobald, Carnwath, Chapman
Because of increasing concern about the effects of catastrophic wildland fires throughout the western United States, federal land managers have been engaged in efforts to restore historical fire behavior and mitigate wildfire risk. During the last 5…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Reynolds, Hessburg, Keane, Menakis
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Williamson
United States wildland fire policy and program reviews in 1995 and 2000 required both the reduction of hazardous fuel and recognition of fire as a natural process. Despite the fact that existing policy permits managing natural ignitions to meet…
Year: 2007
Type: Document