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Management Actions on public lands involves pre-fire treatments, direct responses
to wildland fire, and post-fire treatments or rehabilitation. At each stage
fire management activities are likely to affect aquatic ecosystems with outcomes
somewhere along a continuum from detrimental to benign. A broad-scale,
integrated approach to identifying hazards and risks from wildland fire could
enable land managers to allocate precious resources in a manner most likely to
produce resilient forests, capable of absorbing the effects of wildland fire
without long-term negative impacts to resources. While “watch it burn” is not
the answer for all forests, it is likely ample opportunity exists to use
wildland fire. This section will present alternatives to containment and
suppression-based forest management that allow for increased reliance on
wildland fire.
Section Lead: Matt Dare, mdare [at] fs.fed.us, 208.373.4371
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