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Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program

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 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act prioritizes communities that:Are in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard…

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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Historic Year

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As the agency's Wildfire Crisis Strategy enters its third year, this publication looks back at what was accomplished on the 21 landscapes during fiscal year 2023. It highlights the successful partnerships, new management practices, and on-the-ground efforts that have reduced wildfire risk for communities, infrastructure, and natural resources. The document also looks forward to how work will continue to be funded and implemented, through both new and existing sources and programs.

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Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Program

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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Moose Fire Complex narrative report

WASHINGTON, DC—On July 21, 2022, a contracted wildland fire helicopter, a Boeing CH-47D, crashed into the Salmon River on Salmon-Challis National Forest. The helicopter pilots were engaged in suppression efforts on the Moose Fire 20 air miles northwest of Salmon, Idaho. Sadly, both pilots…

#Wildfire, lessons learned

Employee Perspective: Saving the Klamath—A firsthand account of the Antelope Fire and its aftermath

Rachel Smith, forest supervisor, Klamath National Forest and Butte Valley National Grasslands. USDA Forest Service photo. There are many individual moments that I will remember from the Antelope Fire. It was 97 degrees at 10 p.m. on the night Six Shooter Pass burned in 2021. The battered old Forest…

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National Prescribed Fire Resource Mobilization Strategy

This strategy details how the Forest Service can increase the scale of using prescribed fire. By using established knowledge and practices for wildland fire suppression, the agency will create regional teams to coordinate landscape-scale prescribed fires. Prescribed fire is a critical tool in efforts to reduce wildfire risk and the harm it can cause to people, infrastructure, and natural resources.