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In the News: To Find and Fight Fires (express.adobe.com)

02/02/2023

Hundreds of wildland fires burned more than 3 million acres in over 580 blazes across Alaska in 2022, the fifth largest area burned since 1990. How do fire managers track and monitor these fires while dispatching and protecting firefighters? The answer, in part, is satellites.

The Office of Wildland Fire Quarterly Bulletin (content.govdelivery.com)

01/30/2023

The winter 2022/2023 edition of the Office of Wildland Fire's quarterly newsletter discusses accelerating the pace and scale of wildfire risk reduction and resilience, the new firefighter classification series, developing a firefighter health and wellbeing program, and more.

A silhouetted firefighter uses a drip torch at night. Flames rise from vegetation that looks black in the night. Photo by Austin Catlin, BLM.

Update on Implementation of Wildland Firefighter Occupational Series (content.govdelivery.com)

01/09/2023

In 2022, a new occupational series was created for federal wildland firefighters, as directed by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.The agencies are now working on its implementation and are on track to meet the June 2023 deadline.

Deputy Secretary Beaudreau Announces $228 Million for Wildfire Mitigation and Resilience from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (www.doi.gov)

12/14/2022

Today, Deputy Secretary Beaudreau announced the allocation of $228 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support wildland fire management in fiscal year 2023.

A prescribed fire burns around a fallen tree and in standing trees in the background at dusk. Photo by NPS.

In the News: California needs to burn. Native women are leading the way. (www.washingtonpost.com)

12/14/2022

Decades of fire suppression, logging, and climate change have resulted in catastrophic wildfires in California. A group of Indigenous women from the Karuk Tribe in Northern California are bringing back a centuries-old practice of prescribed burning to help manage a landscape that’s been pushed wildly out of balance.

Smoke rises from the South Moccasin Fire in Montana. Photo by Lauren Kokinda, BLM

In the News: Wildfire Smoke Can Slash California Solar Power Output by Nearly a Third (www.bloomberg.com)

12/14/2022

A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows that smoke can cut solar power production by nearly a third. Scientists examined a period in September 2020, when smoke from some of the largest fires in California history shrouded much of the state in a sickly orange haze .

The Office of Wildland Fire Quarterly Bulletin (content.govdelivery.com)

11/29/2022

The fall 2022 edition of the Office of Wildland Fire's quarterly newsletter discusses increased investments in wildland fire management on the one-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funding opportunities for wildland fire science, career opportunities in fire, and more.

Low flames burn through dried grass in a forest

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In the News: To Find and Fight Fires (express.adobe.com)

The Office of Wildland Fire Quarterly Bulletin (content.govdelivery.com)

Update on Implementation of Wildland Firefighter Occupational Series (content.govdelivery.com)

Deputy Secretary Beaudreau Announces $228 Million for Wildfire Mitigation and Resilience from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (www.doi.gov)

In the News: California needs to burn. Native women are leading the way. (www.washingtonpost.com)

In the News: Wildfire Smoke Can Slash California Solar Power Output by Nearly a Third (www.bloomberg.com)

The Office of Wildland Fire Quarterly Bulletin (content.govdelivery.com)

In the News: Ojibwe Firefighters Restore Fire to the Cloquet Forestry Center (cfans.umn.edu)

In the News: U.S. Secretary of the Interior: Satellites Will Help Us Fight Climate Change (www.scientificamerican.com)

In the News: Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air (www.nytimes.com)

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