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 Fire, Fuels & Aviation works with National Forest System Management and State and Private Forestry programs in the Alaska Region. These programs emphasize public safety, public health, employee safety and employee health through risk identification and risk management.
Fire management planning, preparedness, suppression operations, prescribed fire and related activities are coordinated on an interagency basis with the full involvement of various federal, state and local government cooperators.
The U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and State of Alaska Division of Forestry, and the fight fires within their protection areas on all land ownerships which reduces the duplication of facilities and services. None of the agencies in Alaska have all of the resources required to accomplish the fire protection job on their own. The Forest Service has cooperative agreements with the Department of Interior Division of Forestry has and numerous local government and volunteer fire departments to help get the job done. The federal and state agencies routinely utilize each other's personnel and resources to both manage and fight fires. This is efficient and cost effective for the taxpayer.
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