Monitoring the giants: Tracking resilience of giant sequoias after wildfires
The tag designates a witness tree, which serves as a survey tool. Using three witness trees to triangulate the center of the plot makes it easier for future crews to find the site for monitoring work. (USDA Forest Service photo by Jamie Hinrichs)
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Department of…
#Wildfire, #FireScience, #Resilience, #HazardousFuels, #Monitoring
Discovering dispatch
Interagency dispatchers work behind the scenes and play an indispensable role following an initial report of a wildfire from fire lookout towers or from 911 calls. (Forest Service photo by Zach Behrens)
As wildfires burn across the American west, firefighters from Maine to California respond…
#Wildfire, #Dispatch, #EmergencyServices, #Careers, #WildlandFirefighting
National Forest System Reforestation Strategy
Effective beginning 5/27/2025
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Reforestation is critical to ensuring our forests stay healthy and resilient. This report details the need for expanding the agency's capacity for reforestation, as well as how that can be accomplished through existing and expanded programs and partnerships.
#Wildfire, #ClimateChange, #Climate
Planting the Shade You’ll Never Feel
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service’s 10-year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis and improve forest resilience isn’t just about mitigating wildfire, it’s also about post fire restoration. Together we work with our partners to reforest areas impacted by wildfire.“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Greek Proverb…
#Reforestation, #Wildfire, #ForestHealthProtection, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #SharedStewardship
The Forest Service has a vision; the Stanislaus National Forest has a Plan
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service recently announced a 10-year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis and improve forest resilience. The agency will work with partners over the next decade to treat up to an additional 20 million acres on National Forest System lands and up to an additional 30 million acres of other Federal, State, Tribal, and private lands. This article highlights how…
#StanislausNationalForest, #Collaboration, #Wildfire, #FuelReduction
Science says thinned forests are healthy forests
Overgrown forests are one of the key contributing factors to the current wildfire crisis in the West. The new Forest Service strategy on Confronting the Wildfire Crisis outlines the agency’s plan for increasing fuels and forest health treatments to create healthier forests and reduce the risk to communities…