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Overview
It is the goal of each fire management program within
each agency to assist in the effort of ensuring public
and firefighter safety in reducing risks to communities
while improving and maintaining ecosystem health. Collaboration
and cooperation among federal and non-federal organizations
as well as communities and individuals has further empowered
our fire management purpose.
Fuels treatments are one component of a fire management
program. Treatments may be planned and implemented
within the wildland urban interface community as well
as outside the community in the surrounding ecosystem.
There are four types of hazardous fuels reduction
treatments which support fuels and fire management
purposes including mechanical, prescribed fire, wildland
fire use, and other treatments. |
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National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group
The National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group is establish under the guidance and direction of the Fire Directors of the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service; the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Directors of the named Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureaus and the Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs with the common purpose for reducing risks to communities while improving and maintaining ecosystem health. |
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Fuels Management
There are interagency as well as agency-specific guidance, policy, and procedures for Fuels Management. For more information about the agency-specific strategies and parameters for operations in fuels and fire management, view the information listed below. |
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Communities in the Wildland Urban Interface
The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is defined by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) as "the line, area, or zone where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland or vegetative fuels". This interface includes all areas where developed lands, such as homes, businesses or agricultural lands, meet undeveloped lands, such as naturally appearing ecosystems like grasslands, woodlands or forests. |
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Hazard Fuels Reduction Outside Communities
Fuels are considered any type of combustible material. The primary objective of hazard fuels reduction or vegetation treatments is to remove enough of this fuel to reduce the risk posed by wildfire. In general, fuels treatments reduce surface fuels and/or maintain healthy forests using thinning and limbing techniques. Treatments have been proven to successfully lessen the severity and threat of wildfires to the public and firefighter safety as well as making fire suppression easier. |
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Partners
The USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS) are all federal partners in Interagency Fire and Fuels Management. Although the collaboration and cooperation between these agencies is great, it is not enough. Among the many other partners whose support enhances the Interagency Fire and Fuels Management Programs are State Forestry, non-profit organizations, additional federal agencies, state government, local government, community alliances, fire departments, and town councils, etc. Partners will continue to enhance, assist, supplement, and empower sound fuels management programs. |
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