Clearing the ridge: Fire for forest health and resilient communities
Wildfire is driven by three main factors — weather, terrain and fuels. When fighting wildfires, firefighters work to reduce the fuel feeding the fire, either by removing it with heavy equipment, handlines or by making it hard to burn by soaking the fuel with water or retardant.
Adam Dummer,…
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Forest Service professionals prepare for a prescribed burn
This image exemplifies the type of low intensity fire behavior on a prescribed fire that helps protect communities and critical infrastructure and supports forest health. (USDA Photo by Phil Graeve).
Editor’s note: Prescribed fire is one of the many ways the Forest Service is confronting the…
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Protecting the Stanislaus Landscape
Part of the National Recreation Trails system, the Pinecrest Lake loop is one of the premiere hiking trails in the state of California and the entry way to the sublime -- Cleo’s Bath. Follow the trail around to the sign for Cleo’s Bath, turn off the main trail and begin your ascent higher into the eastern the Sierra Nevada. (USDA Forest Service Photo by Benjamin Cossel).
For many residents of…
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Job Corps students round out an all-female engine module
Carrie Wilts from the Wayne National Forest and Lyndon B. Johnson Job Corps student Tariya Williams light a section of line during the compartment 110 prescribed fire on the Oconee National Forest in February 2023. USDA Forest Service photo by Colleen Urffer.
GEORGIA—While a small…
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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Second Landscapes
The start of fiscal year 2023 saw the selection of 11 new landscapes targeted for treatments under the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. This sixth installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis" details those landscapes and discusses the funding sources that are being used to protect our communities, infrastructure, and natural resources.
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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Initial Landscapes
In 2022, the Forest Service and our partners identified 10 initial landscapes to receive funding as part of the new Wildfire Crisis Strategy. This fourth installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis" offers profiles on each landscape and outlines the decision process that led to choosing these areas.