Wildfire management in advance: Using PODS to identify boundaries
Glen Lewis explains the basics of PODs at the workshop held on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. USDA Forest Service photo by Richard Parker.
WASHINGTON, DC—The Forest Service is taking a proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to wildfire management in part by hosting a series of potential…
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Partnership teaches community members to reduce wildfire risks
A cut and stacked pile like this is best for winter pile burning around homes and properties. Photo courtesy of Gloria Erickson, Dovetail Partners.
MINNESOTA—Gathered around piles of cut and stacked balsam fir, 25 members from communities surrounding the Superior National Forest participated in a pile…
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Job Corps Alumna: Maite Olsen’s path to a Forest Service career
Trapper Creek Job Corps graduate Maite Olsen is scheduled to begin her Forest Service career in mid-March 2023, as a customer service representative on the Wise Ranger District on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. USDA Forest Service photo by Gary Mitchell.
COLORADO—After a long journey, Trapper…
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Fires of winter
Pile burning is usually a one-to-two-year process from beginning to end. First brush, or slash is collected and placed in piles. Then the pile will sit for a year drying out to be burned in wetter colder months. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt).
Snow melts and becomes water, and…
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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.
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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Chronicle
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.