Healthy Forests Initiative
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Healthy Forests Initiative
Al Murphy
BLM, NIFC
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In August 2002, President Bush announced the “Healthy Forests Initiative for Wildfire Prevention and Stronger Communities.”
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Outlines Administration’s plan to:
• Accelerate forest restoration
• Reduce long-term wildfire threat
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Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to:
• Expedite thinning projects
• Speed up the environmental assessment process
• Expedite the appeals process.
• Continue work on the ten-year Strategy Implementation Plan
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A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment10-Year Comprehensive Strategy Implementation PlanMay 2002
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The four goals of the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy are:
1. Improve Fire Prevention and Suppression
2. Reduce Hazardous Fuels
3. Restore Fire-Adapted Ecosystems
4. Promote Community Assistance
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Goal 2: Reduce Hazardous FuelsImplementation Outcome:
Hazardous fuels are treated, using appropriate tools, to reduce the risk of unplanned and unwanted wildland fire to communities and to the Environment.
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Goal 2 Implementation Tasks
• Utilize as appropriate the Cohesive Strategy…
• Develop fire management template…
• Prepare Internet system for assistance…
• Establish a common Internet system for status…
• Develop a process for interagency selection of projects…
• Assess state and federal regulatory processes…
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• Categorical Exclusions (DOI and FS)
• Model Project EA/NEPA Strike Teams (CEQ/DOI)
• Streamlining ESA Consultation (F&WS)
• Guidance on Short/Long-term Effects (F&WS)
• Fire Management Plan Template (DOI)
• Fixing Northwest Forest Plan Changes (DOI and FS)
Kremmling FO
Streamlining Efforts:
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“Stewardship Contracts”
• Exchange of forest products for:– Thinning– Habitat restoration– Other services
Off-set costsSupport local economies
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“In most of our forested areas, we have to look – not at what should be taken out of the forest – but at what the forest should look like when we’re finished doing the thinning.”
Rebecca Watson, assistant secretary for land and minerals management, DOI
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HFI and Fire Management
• 12 million acres of restoration needed
• 5-yr average of 33,000 acres treated
• FY 2003 > 500,000 acres treated
Would have taken 500 years to treat BLM’s forest health
problems.
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Role of Fire Management
• Reduce fuels
• Restore ecosystems damaged by invasive species
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Active Forest Management includes:
• Meeting long-term ecological, economic and community objectives;• Forest thinning
• Commercial products
• Biomass utilization
• Prescribed fire
Gunnison FO
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Active BLM Forest Management
Before
After
Durango FO
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Active BLM Forest Management
Before
After
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Active BLM Forest Management
Durango FO
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The picture of unhealthy forests and rangelands must change.
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Taos FO
Anchorage FO
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Healthy Forests Initiative
www.whitehouse.gov
www.fireplan.gov
Al Murphy 208-387-5169