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Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance Grants

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Logs removed as hazardous fuels from Fremont-Winema National Forest in Oregon being unloaded from a rail car in Hulett, WY. (Image courtesy of Dan Buehler of Neiman Enterprises in Hulett, WY) Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance grants support projects that remove hazardous fuels from…
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A blueprint for fire prevention

Wildland firefighter igniting a pile of brush with a drip torch as other firefighters stand in the background
Editor’s note: Clear Lake Environmental Research Center in Lake County California received an additional Community Wildfire Defense Grant in round 2 for $8,002,157 to support reducing fuels and restoring fire-adapted ecosystems on private lands and roadways.  The sounds of chainsaws and chippers aren’t normally associated with a sense of new life and vitality. But in Lake County,…
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Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program

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Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG) help communities and Tribes plan for and reduce wildfire risk and implement the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy.Launched in 2022, the $1 billion five-year competitive grant program funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law prioritizes communities that: Are in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard…
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Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Program

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Marc Estrada a Forest Service wildland firefighter with Palomar Fire Station during a prescribed fire. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt) The Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Program enables national forests, in collaboration with tribes, communities, and partners, to reduce…
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Southern area a top priority for national wildfire response

A bulldozer faces burning conifer trees and flames while creating a fire break.
On August 24, Forest Service crews assisted Texas A&M Forest Service by putting in containment lines to help slow the Shearwood Creek Fire’s spread in Jasper, Texas. (USDA Forest Service photo by Danny Harris) The South is burning. Over 15,700 wildfires have burned 505,179 acres since New…
wildland firefighting, wildland urban interface, fire adapted communities, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, #Fire

Cross-boundary partnership brings together lands and people to prevent future wildfires

A group of people on a Forest Service tour in a forested area.
Forest Service and partners during a field tour on the San Juan National Forest. (The Forest Stewards Guild photo by Esme Cadiente) Across the arid Southwest, prolonged drought, increased fuel loading and past fire exclusion left many communities at risk for catastrophic wildfire."We've been…
partnerships, #WildfireCrisis, CFLRP, Rio Chama, new mexico, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, fire prevention, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, #Fire
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