Wildland Fire

Enhancing our land’s capacity for self-renewal; Restoring fire’s natural role in nature.

To safeguard the future of the forests and rangelands that generations of Americans have depended upon and cherished, we must focus on restoring, as broadly as possible, the land’s capacity for self-renewal.

Among the tools available to land managers to rehabilitate stressed landscapes is the restoration of the natural process of fire. Recognizing fire’s necessary role in nature is critical to improving the overall health of degraded ecosystems.

Instead of being a significant barrier to conservation-based stewardship of public lands, such as the designation of wilderness and protection of old-growth forests, fire can bring communities together. By building partnerships based on the link between the ecological health of the land and the social and economic well-being of rural communities our work can result in long-lasting and enduring change in fire and forest management.

To get there, we employ a strategy that addresses societal concerns about fire, develops solution-oriented policies, and demonstrates how those solutions can be applied on the ground.

We are working to ensure that:

• state and federal policies and funding levels promote forest restoration and facilitate community protection and,economic well being.
• decision-makers and stakeholders have the tools necessary to make informed decisions that promote ecologically sustainable, socially acceptable, and fiscally responsible landscape-scale fire management decisions on the ground.
• the public understands the critical link between healthy ecosystems and wildland fire.