Apr 12, 2022
In January 2022, the U.S. Forest Service published the wildfire crisis strategy termed, Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests (click here to view the strategy). The intent of the strategy...
Apr 12, 2022
Follow this link to view the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire, released in March 2022. The intent of this plan is to expand the use of prescribed fire and cultural burning to build forest and...
Feb 4, 2022
Click here to view the UC Davis article titled, Just What Is a ‘Resilient’ Forest, Anyway? Study Finds Resilient, Frequent-Fire Forests Have Far Fewer Trees. The article references the recent publication by Dr. Malcolm North and others (2022) in the journal Forest...
Feb 4, 2022
The Eldorado National Forest is filling multiple temporary positions for the 2022 fire season. Job announcements close February 7, 2022. Click here to view the flyer. Openings are available at the GS-3, GS-4 and GS-5 levels. These temporary positions have a maximum...
Jan 14, 2022
The SNC is now accepting proposals for its 2022 Wildfire Recovery and Forest Resilience Grant Program. Proposals must be submitted by January 31, 2022 and all projects funded under the current grant cycle must be complete by January 1, 2028. Up to $25 million is...
Jan 14, 2022
Check out an articled published by ProPublica in January of 2022, California’s Forever Fire, found here: https://www.propublica.org/article/californias-forever-fire.
Dec 13, 2021
The USFS has just recently published the Critical Loads Video Series on their YouTube channel. This video series features “how air pollution, specifically excess nitrogen and sulfur deposition, affects species and ecosystems. It also highlights how land managers...
Dec 13, 2021
Click here to view a new article published by in the USDA’s Science You Can Use Bulletin (Nov/Dec 2021) out of the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station on high-severity wildfire in the western US and its effects on water quality. The article is titled, Forests,...
