NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The National Park Service's website.
WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announces its goals set by President Trump for vegetative treatments to reduce wildfire risk in Fiscal Year 2019, marking the largest fuel load reduction in a decade, have more than doubled in the past year. The announcement comes as the land management agencies with wild land fire programs—the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—report their end-of-year accomplishments and begin preparations for the next fire year.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt says in a press release: “We took action by maximizing wildfire management efforts across the Department and deploying needed resources to reduce the intensity and impacts of wildfires. This is an issue that impacts the whole country, and we’re looking broadly at what we can do to reduce wildfire risk.”
The DOI was required to:
Executing on these goals this year, the DOI:
For a state-by-state breakdown of where these treatments have occurred, visit the Office of Wildland Fire website.