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CONFRONTING THE WILDFIRE CRISIS
Forest DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREFS 1187b | January 2022 CONFRONTING THE WILDFIRE CRISISWILDFIRE CRISISI mplementation PlanA 10-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLANC over photo: Spring prescribed burning on the Bitterroot National Forest, MT. USDA Forest Service pile burning after mechanical treatment on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, OR. USDA Forest Service in the West have been growing in size and severity, placing homes, communities, infrastructure, and natural resources at grave and growing risk. Growing WILDFIRE risk is due to past fire exclusion and accumulating fuels, a warming climate, and expanding development in the wildland-urban interface.
The strategy calls for an unprecedented paradigm shift in land management to increase fuels and forest health treatments across jurisdictions to match the actual scale of wildfire risk to people, communities, and natural resources, especially in the Western United States. Over a period of 10 years, the proposed strategy calls for:
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