[PCA] USDA Forest Service Announces New Strategy for Improving Forest Conditions

[De Angelis, Patricia]

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Release No. 0165.18, August 16, 2018
Contact: USDA Press,  press at oc.usda.gov

Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service
(USFS) announced
today a new strategy
<https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest>
for
managing catastrophic wildfires and the impacts of invasive species,
drought, and insect and disease epidemics.

Specifically, a new report titled *Toward Shared Stewardship across
Landscapes: An Outcome-based investment Strategy*
<https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/toward-shared-stewardship.pdf> (PDF,
3.7 MB) outlines the USFS’s plans to work more closely with states to
identify landscape-scale priorities for targeted treatments in areas with
the highest payoffs.

Both federal and private managers of forest land face a range of urgent
challenges, among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, degraded
watersheds, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. The conditions
fueling these circumstances are not improving. Of particular concern are
longer fire seasons, the rising size and severity of wildfires, and the
expanding risk to communities, natural resources, and firefighters.

See the full Press Release
<https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest>

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