Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

Machinery grinding up small trees in a forest

Reducing wildfire risk and protecting structures (www.nps.gov)

09/25/2020

Last year the National Park Service received an additional one million dollars in funding to reduce wildfire risk to structures, facilities, and infrastructure. The Natural Resources Stewardship and Science and Visitor and Resource Protection’s Fire and Aviation Management Program associateships selected Crater Lake and Yellowstone National Parks as the as the focus areas for this risk reduction investment.

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Cows grazing on a hillside of shrubs and grasses

In the News: Using outcome-based grazing to manage fire (fireadaptednetwork.org)

09/11/2020

Katie Wollstein is a research assistant from the Policy Analysis Group and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Idaho. Katie has been working for the past five years on researching the social and policy aspects of rangeland management in the West talking with ranchers, land managers and policy makers. In this blog she shares a bit about what she’s learned.

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A firefighter lights small fires with a drip torch while walking through a burning forest at night

Be the one to ask

09/10/2020

We lean into the work. We lean into the physical fitness. It's time to lean into mental health. Take action to prevent suicide: be the one to ask.

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A group of firefighters standing in front of a fire truck

U.S. Air Force and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partner to complete fuels reduction projects

09/09/2020

The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife regularly partner to complete important fuels reduction projects on Air Force lands. Through prescribed fire or mechanical forest fuel reduction, the FWS provided mission support to 14 USAF installations across the country in 2019. So far, in 2020, the FWS has successfully assisted with several preparedness projects, including a 273-acre prescribed burn on Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, and a 260-acre prescribed burn at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, alongside the National Park Service.

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