Integrating Watershed Restoration in Wildfire Management: Opportunities, Approaches, and Examples
This publication summarizes new techniques in watershed restoration, known as process-based restoration, that improve wildfire management and support the Active Forest Management Strategy, the Executive Order 14225, and the agency's multiple-use mandate.
#Water, #Watershed, #Wildfire, #WildfireRecovery, #Restoration, #Reforestation
What is ESF #4
Coordination of resources can be complicated during a Presidential declaration of an emergency or a major disaster; however, a process exists to guide such multi-agency interactions. In these cases, the response is coordinated under the National Response Framework (NRF). The NRF identifies the roles and structures of Federal agencies to provide support to States or other agencies through…
#Fire, #Firefighters, #Disasters, #NaturalDisasters, #HurricaneRecovery, #Recovery, #EmergencyResponse, #Flood, #Hazards, #WildfireRecovery
Community roots, lasting impact
The Salmon-Challis National Forest is no stranger to wildfire. Its rugged terrain spans 4.3 million acres across Central Idaho with much of the land affected by fires over the past few decades.The need to accelerate reforestation has only grown. The small yet dedicated forest silviculture crew took on the main responsibility for that work. But that changed three years ago when the Salmon-Challis…
#SalmonChallisNationalForest, #Wildfire, #Idaho, #Silviculture, #SharedStewardship, #PostFireRecovery, #Timber, #Reforestation, #WildfireRecovery, #ForestRestoration, #Partnerships, #ForestHealth, #NaturalResourceManagement
Post-Fire Recovery
In September 2020, the Riverside Fire burned through the Timber Lake Job Corps CCC in Estacada, Oregon. Students and staff evacuated safely ahead of the fire, and most of the core facilities survived but damage was significant. Some staff lost their homes, the campus was without water, power,…
#BurnedAreaEmergencyResponse, #Watershed, #EmergencyResponse, #Disasters, #Hurricane, #WildfireRecovery, #PostFireRecovery
Reducing Wildfire Risk and Improving Wildlife Habitat
Editor’s note: The Forest Service’s Southern Region uses prescribed fire to annually treat about 1.2 million acres on national forests and grasslands from Texas east to Virginia and south to Florida. Prescribed fire, or intentionally burning vegetation, reduces wildlife risks, improves timber stands, restores and enhances native plant and wildlife species, and protects water quality for thousands…
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Fine-tuned partnerships rev up trail recovery
USDA Forest Service recreation technician Paige Makowski works with off-highway vehicle groups to repair trails and provide added safety features. But she also developed friendship and occasional rides with group members. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Each year, severe wildfires ravage forests…