Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Making a Difference
The third year of the agency's Wildfire Crisis Strategy saw work continue across the 21 landscapes and throughout the nation. This latest publication highlights the accomplishments and challenges as the Forest Service leads the effort to reduce the risks of severe wildfire impacting our country's communities, infrastructure, and natural resources. New and expanded programs, partnerships, and other relationships continue to drive progress forward.
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SCIENCEx FIRE: Fuels, smoke & post-fire in the West
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. Ten SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks…
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Lunch & Learns: New research supporting the Wildfire Crisis Strategy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bring your lunch and join us this winter for short presentations about Forest Service science supporting the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. Each Wednesday, you’ll hear about 3 new research projects currently underway, what has been learned so far and how managers and others might get involved.…
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Forest Service workshop champions importance of restoring peatland
Where peatland restoration is successful, rewetting conditions lead to recolonization by plants that are staples of a healthy wetland ecosystem, such as Sphagnum mosses, sedges, heath plants, tamarack and black spruce. (USDA Forest Service photo by Erik Lilleskov)
MINNESOTA — Ever heard of a…
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Water is life
The Rio Fernando Collaborative has partnered with Taos County and the Forest Service to reduce wildfire risk and improve water availability in the Taos, New Mexico region. From left to right – Wayne Rutherford, Joe Fernandez, MaryAnn Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Ed Bell, Patricia Martinez Rutherford and Michael Lujan. (USDA/Forest Service photo by…
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The Sho-Pai wood bank crew is just getting warmed up
Bordering southern Idaho, in Owyhee, Nevada, winter temperatures can dip below zero degrees on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. For Shoshone-Paiute Tribal members, burning wood to heat their homes has been a way of life for generations.“We’re remote. We’re on the last mile of the power grid so it’s very important that we have alternate sources of heat, and there are a lot of homes in the…