Joint Chiefs’ Funding at Work: Improving Landscapes and Protecting Communities
Since 2014, a partnership between the USDA Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service has improved the health and resiliency of forest ecosystems and mitigated wildfire threats where public and private lands meet. So far, the United States Department of Agriculture has invested more than $247 million in the partnership, known as the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration…
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Fuels treatments critical to wildfire management
Widespread thunderstorms delivered lightning without precipitation to the dry hillsides surrounding Asotin, Wash. (USDA Forest Service/Umatilla National Forest)
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service recently announced a 10-year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis and improve forest resilience. The…
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Treating Forests Back to Health
As temperatures begin to signal winter, Forest Service districts are starting planned fire operations to clear low lying tree debris that will reduce hazardous materials. While images of firelines snaking across valleys and consuming entire communities flooded the media this summer, voices joined in a chorus that “we must do something about this”. With an emphasis on “we” states, tribes and…
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Research to Help You Breathe a Little Easier
By developing tools and resources that help forecast when and where smoke will travel, the AirFire Research Team allows public health agencies and communities to prepare for smoke impacts. USDA Forest Service photo.
Each year, millions of people are exposed to unhealthy air quality. As wildfire seasons grow…
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Make your home wildfire defensible
Fire activity increases as USDA Forest Service wildland firefighters stand their ground against the Carr Fire. (Redding, CA) On July 23, 2018, the Carr Fire ignited. Efforts of nearly 1000 USDA Forest Service employees, and wildland firefighters, from initial attack and weeks following,…
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Forest Service fights fire by starting a few
A Forest Service employee uses a drip torch during a prescribed burn operation in the Tahoe National Forest. (USDA Forest Service photo)
The flames and billowing smoke rose high enough to veil the sun that cold February afternoon as an acre of bone-dry grasslands was ignited by a slow, fiery…