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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Initial Landscapes

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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.

#WildfireCrisisStrategy, #PrescribedFire, #Wildfire, #LandManagement, #Partnerships

Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Chronicle

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The Forest Service and other land management agencies have long worked together to manage a growing wildfire crisis. This document, the third installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis," details how those efforts have evolved from the 1990s towards the National Cohesive Strategy in the 2010s and into the present strategy of the 2020s.

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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Implementation Plan

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The implementation of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy details how the Forest Service will work with our partners to identify projects and begin work to mitigate the wildfire crisis. It is the second installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis."

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US and Brazil train to better communicate, inform and educate during wildfires

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A student gives a live, on-camera TV interview to practice communication skills and how to interact with reporters. USDA Forest Service photo by Suelene Couto. Washington, DC—Your coworker arrives in the office and says during her commute she saw smoke in the direction of the forest nearby…
#InternationalPrograms, #Wildfire, public information officer, #Education, Communications

Engaging the fire science community to learn from fire management

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Fire personnel from the Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests pose proudly in the ‘Dome,’ a fire-adapted oak-pine forest where they have been reintroducing fire with prescribed burns. USDA Forest Service photo. VERMONT—The Green Mountain National Forest Fire Team recently held…
#Wildfire, #PrescribedFire, New England

Protecting the North Yuba landscape with thousands of forest acres thinned and restored in California

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Since 2018, partners have been working together to collaboratively plan, analyze, finance, and implement forest restoration across the North Yuba River watershed in Tahoe National Forest. Photo courtesy of Yuba Water Agency Established in the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush of 1849,…
#Wildfire, North Yuba Forest Partnership, Tahoe National Forest, #InfrastructureInvestmentAndJobsAct, #WildfireCrisisStrategy, #Restoration, Landscape Resilience, #PrescribedFire, mechanical thinning, #WildfireRiskReduction