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A patch of bright green corn lilies glow in the sunlight amid an otherwise barren forest floor and blackened trees stretching toward a blue sky. The lilies indicate the presence of shallow groundwater in a post-fire monitoring plot in the Mendocino Nation

A Research Project Aims to Improve Forest Resiliency to Future Wildfires

02/07/2023

A research project that recently received funding from the Joint Fire Science Program, with support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, aims to help the Mendocino and Shasta Trinity national forests recover from extreme wildfires while developing forest conditions that will build resiliency to climate change, fires, and other disturbances.

A wildland firefighter with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helps private landowners adjacent to the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge set a prescribed fire to manage vegetation and reduce the risk of an extreme wildfire. He holds a drip to

Improving Wildfire Risk Reduction through Ecosystem Mapping

02/06/2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is providing an additional $20 million to the Joint Fire Science Program over five years to support wildland fire science. One proposal that received funding through the law will develop improved ecosystem maps to support strategic fire and fuel management planning at regional and landscape scales.

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.

Two wildland firefighters from the Snake River Hotshots Crew stand on a small rise overlooking flames burning in tall, dried grass. Black smoke rises from the flames. The fire and smoke fade to the left, and snow-covered peaks are visible in the distance.

Director’s Report: A Historic Down Payment on the Future

01/30/2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a historic down payment on the future that will help overcome the worsening climate crisis and increasingly severe wildfires. Accelerating the pace and scale of the Interior Department’s wildland fire management activities is a priority in 2023.

A three-day fire behavior analysis for the 2022 Moose Fire in Idaho. The analysis was completed in the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) using LANDFIRE products. This fire behavior simulation helped with decisions by evaluating fire spread.

Welcome to LANDFIRE, Where Consistent Data has Improved Fire Modeling

01/23/2023

Predicting a wildfire’s movement is a complex task. Technology like the geospatial mapping program LANDFIRE makes the process more rapid and accurate.

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.

Reclamation’s National Wildland Fire Management Program Coordinator Laura Harger (right) with the Regional Wildland Fire Management Program Coordinators John Hutchings and Kendra Fallon. They visited Whiskeytown Reservoir, a Reclamation reservoir within W

Addressing the Threat of Wildfires to Water Supplies: Meet Laura Harger

01/04/2023

As the National Wildland Fire Management Program Coordinator for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Laura Harger is developing the bureau’s program to address wildfires and the risks they pose to water supplies and hydropower production.

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.

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