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National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy: Addendum Update
[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

Synthesis of Wildfire Crisis Strategy Roundtables 2022: Overarching themes and opportunities for action
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Addressing Equity and Environmental Justice in the Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy
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

Inequality in agency responsiveness: evidence from salient wildfire events
Anderson, Plantinga, Wibbenmeyer
Government agencies may be an additional source of unequal representation beyond those stemming from the differential responsiveness of elected officials. In this paper, we use plausibly exogenous focusing events, which raise public demands for…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Effects of Policy Change on Wildland Fire Management Strategies
Young
In 2009, new guidance for wildland fire management in the United States expanded the range of strategic options for managers working to reduce the threat of high-severity wildland fire, improve forest health and respond to a changing climate.…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Evaluating wildland fire liability standards - does regulation incentivise good management?
Lauer, Montgomery, Dietterich
Fire spread on forested landscapes depends on vegetation conditions across the landscape that affect the fire arrival probability and forest stand value. Landowners can control some forest characteristics that facilitate fire spread, and when a…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Ager, Day, McHugh, Short, Gilbertson-Day, Finney, Calkin
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

The efficacy of hazardous fuel treatments: a rapid assessment of the economic and ecologic consequences of alternative hazardous fuel treatments: a summary document for policy makers
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the United States Congress have repeatedly asked the Office of Wildland Fire in the Department of Interior (DOI) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Getting burned: a taxpayer's guide to wildfire suppression costs
Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may…
Year: 2010
Type: Document

Advances in threat assessment and their application to forest and rangeland management - Volume 2
Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can…
Year: 2010
Type: Document