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Release No. 0165.18, August 16, 2018<br>Contact: USDA Press, 

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<br><br>Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS) <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest" target="_blank">announced today a new strategy</a> for managing catastrophic wildfires and the impacts of invasive species, drought, and insect and disease epidemics.<p style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Specifically, a new report titled<span> </span><a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/toward-shared-stewardship.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><i>Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-based investment Strategy</i></a><span> </span>(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.</p>



<p style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">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.</p><p style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">See the full <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest">Press Release</a><br></p><p style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">(<a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest">https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/08/16/usda-forest-service-announces-new-strategy-improving-forest</a>)</p><p style="text-align:left"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><br></div>