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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $185 Million for Wildfire Mitigation and Resilience as Part of the Investing in America Agenda
Wildland Fire, Press Release
A firefighter on a prescribed burn
7/12/2023
Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov
During a visit to Montana today, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau announced a $185 million investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support wildland fire management nationwide in fiscal year 2023 and to assist land managers in planning for wildfire management activities in fiscal year 2024. The funding will support special pay supplements and training opportunities for federal wildland firefighters and will advance collaborative fuels management and burned area rehabilitation activities.
Canada and the United States Commit to Enhanced Wildland Fire Cooperation
Wildland Fire, Press Release
A National Park Service hotshot crew stands in a group before US and Canada flags.
6/23/2023
Natural Resources Canada
The U.S. and Canada renewed an arrangement that strengthens the two countries’ long-standing cooperation to combat wildfires and protect communities.
Update on Expanding Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Services
Wildland Fire, Press Release
A firefighter contemplates a partially burned forest at the 2021 Caldor Fire. By Joe Bradshaw, BLM.
4/4/2023
The Interior and Agriculture departments, at the direction of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, are developing a Joint Wildland Firefighter Behavioral Health Program. A planning summit for the joint program will be held in Boise, Idaho, on April 11-13.
President’s 2023 Budget Proposes Significant Investments to Address the Nation’s Wildfire Crisis
Wildland Fire, Press Release
The Summit Trail Fire.
3/28/2022
The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2023. It proposes a significant increase for the Department of the Interior’s Wildland Fire Management Program to address the effects of climate change and the impacts of wildfires on public health, communities, and natural and cultural resources. 
Interior Announces Plan to Implement Historic Wildland Fire Management Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Wildland Fire, Press Release
A prescribed fire burns near a community in Florida.
2/16/2022
The Department of the Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire today announced initial plans for investing nearly $1.5 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to increase the resilience of communities and lands facing the threat of wildland fires and to better support federal wildland firefighters. 
Interior Department and Intertribal Timber Council Strengthen Wildland Fire Management Collaboration
Wildland Fire, Press Release
Geronimo Interagency Hotshot Crew, administered by the San Carlos Apache Tribe, sponsored by USDA.
9/15/2021
The Department of the Interior today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Intertribal Timber Council. As climate change propels larger, costlier and more complex wildfires, this agreement emphasizes the importance of collaborating on wildland fire management across departmental and Tribal lands.
Secretaries Haaland and Vilsack Announce Implementation of New Pay Initiatives for Wildland Firefighters
Secretary Deb Haaland, Employee Workplace Issues, Wildland Fire, Press Release
Firefighter stands on a rocky hill, looking toward billowing smoke.
8/17/2021
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the implementation of President Biden's pay intiatives to recognize and support federal wildland firefighters.
President’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Makes Significant Investments to Address Wildfire Risk and Climate Change
Wildland Fire, Press Release
Firefighters stand on a burned slope on the North Complex Fire in California
6/1/2021
The 2022 DOI budget request for Wildland Fire Management proposes significant increases to help mitigate the risks and impacts of catastrophic wildfire by improving the health, resiliency, and recovery of wildland ecoystems.
President Proposes $1 Billion for Department of the Interior Wildland Fire Management in Fiscal Year 2021
Wildland Fire, Press Release
A hand crew monitors the fire they just lit on the Bureau of Land Management's Trout Springs Prescribed Fire in southwest Idaho
2/10/2020
Funding invests in a year-round workforce to protect people, property, and natural resources from destructive wildfires
Office of Wildland Fire Launches Redesigned Website and New Blog
Wildland Fire, Press Release
Firefighter pull hose up a hill
11/13/2019
New tools improve outreach and engagement with the public
Department of the Interior Takes Aim at Reducing the Threat of Wildland Fire
America's Great Outdoors, Press Release
Department of the Interior bison seal set against green mountainous background.
5/5/2017
Department of the Interior Takes Aim at Reducing the Threat of Wildland Fire