Western Cohesive Strategy Newsletter Archive

Newsletter #42 Western Regional Strategy Committee Update What is a Fireshed? Protecting Utah's Forested Watersheds Messaging is Important to Increase Understanding and Build Support  National Leaders Commit to Cohesive Strategy Using Drones to Ignite Rx Fire Not Just a Goat's Game Anymore  Non Traditional Partnerships Build Awareness and Support Newsletter #41 Cohesive Strategy in Motion Using Pinyon Juniper for Bio Char Private Partnerships Winning at Reducing Risk Thinking Outside the Box for LARGE Landscape Resiliency $5.1 Million for Cohesive Strategy Implementation 4FRI Gets $10 Million Boost Creative Ways to Raise Awareness and Motivate Action in Communities Newsletter #40  2015 Western Region Stakeholder Implementation Report is Out! It's Not About Restoration Anymore, It's About Resilience More Prescribed Fire in California  Ashland Forest Resiliency Project Raises $5.64 Million for Treatment on Private Lands Targeted Grazing Reduces Wildland Fire Risk Engaging Communities with a Coloring Contest Secretary Vilsack Not Mincing Words USDA Initiative Improves Resiliency, Reduces Wildfire Threats through Local Partnerships Resilience is Going to Happen, One Way or Another FACNet Launches Updated Website and FAC Self Assessment Tool Newsletter #39  Call for Stories  2015 National Prescribed Fire Use Report Out USDA Ends Fire Borrowing Successful Statewide FAC Conference Why Prescribed Fire? TREX Takes Advantage of the Opportunity After 47 Years, Tom Harbour Looks Back...and Ahead A Trusted Translator - The Role of Community Liaisons Newsletter #38 Western Regional Strategy Committee Sets Aggressive Three Year Action Plan Assessing Mitigation Effectiveness in the New Mexico WUI Prescribed Fire Reducing Risk in Nebraska Partnerships Leading to Great Success in North Central Idaho Counties a Valuable Asset in Mitigating Wildfire Risk Losing Homes to Wildfire is a Sociopolitical Problem Innovative Approach Helping Communities in New Mexico New Quick Guides to Help Communities Newsletter #37 Wildland Fire Leadership Council Meets in DC Collaboration Pays Off with Acres Treated and Training Nevada Stakeholders Create Statewide Cohesive Strategy Effort Fires of Change Fire Adapted Communities in Colorado  Multi-County Cohesive Strategy Initiative in Oregon From Adversaries to Believers Upcoming Learning Opportunities Newsletter #36 Every Fire Put Out is a Problem Put Off A Cohesive Strategy for the Future CWPP Incorporates Cohesive Strategy WRSC Partners Testify at US Senate Committee Hearing Updated After the Wildfire Guide Fire Provides Lessons on Value of Landscape Treatments  Upcoming Learning Opportunities Newsletter #35 WFLC Meets to Discuss National Priorities  Resilience - A New Approach to Fighting Fire Raising Wildfire Awareness by Marathon Timber Industry & Environmentalists Agree Fire Science Exchange Network   Upcoming Learning Opportunities Newsletter #34 Using Fire When You Can  Solving Fire Response Challenges the Cohesive Strategy Way  25 Projects Selected for $3 Million in Grants Western Governors Talk Drought, Wildfire & Sage-Grouse From Misinformation to Facts:  The West Fork Fire Tour

Newsletter # 33 

• Improving Initial Attack 

• $10 Million for Resilient Landscape Projects

• Utah Adopts Goals of Cohesive Strategy

• FWPP Wins Solutions Search Contest 

• Using Traditional Native Techniques  to Combat Wildfire and Drought 

• Meaningful Measures of FAC Success

Newsletter #32

• Western Region Engages Senior Regional Leadership 

• Final DOI Rangeland Strategy Announced

• Making a Difference on Colorado's Front Range

• FireFree a HUGE PILE of Success

• Cost Share Partnerships Working Towards Resilient Landscapes

• Reduce Wildfire Risks or We'll Continue to Pay

• Quadrennial Fire Review Released 

Newsletter #31

• Managing a Wildfire and Rx Fires Together

• Model Program in Oregon

• Community Wildfire Preparedness Day - May 2nd

• The Fire Next Time

• Secret Society of Cooperative Extension

• Successful Chipping Program in Big Bear

• Two Goats Watershed Restoration 

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #30

• Ambitious New Partnership in California

• Key Environmentalists Support Largest Restoration Effort in History

• National Park Service Finalizes Five-Year Wildland Fire Plan

• Post Fire Logging to Biomass in Hawaii

• New Study Reveals Benefit of Post Fire Logging

• Joint Chiefs Choose New Projects to Fund in 2015

Newsletter #29

• Plumas Fire Safe Council and National Forest Aim for New Collaborative

• Empowering Communities to Become More Fire Adapted

• Utah BLM Treatments Work to Save Sage-Grouse Habitat

• Community Assistance Grants Align with Cohesive Strategy

• Recovery and Restoration in Colorado

Newsletter #28

• Secretary Jewell signs Order for New Sagebrush and Rangelands Strategy

• Long Term Thinning Pays Off in Arizona

• Preparing for Next Fire Season in North Central Washington

• University of Alaska Sponsors New Hand Crews

Newsletter #27

• 2014 Fire Siege Video  

• Cameras Spotting Wildfires in Lake Tahoe

• CWPP Updates in Hawaii

• Emissions and Smoke Web Portal

• Council of Western State Foresters 2014 Accomplishment Report

Newsletter #26

• Strategizing to protect greater sage grouse habitat in the Great Basin  

• Western Regional Strategy Committee meets and agrees on aggressive implementation plans for 2015

• Flagstaff Wildfire Cost Avoidance Study justifies fuel treatments to protect watersheds

• Forest Service exceeds land restoration goals for 2014

• Accounting for the true costs of wildfire

Newsletter #25

• Tripod Fire Study finds fuel treatments affect burn severity even decades after treatment;

• Lake Tahoe Basin Fuel Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy 2014 update, plus BAER team assesses King Fire site - Youtube video on hydrophobic soils;

• The emotional impacts of wildfire;

• Prescribed Fire Councils host TREX trainings;

• Karuk Tribe returns fire to the land through TREX training;

• US Forest Service Partnership Guide for Tribal Governments.

Newsletter #24

• TREX - Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges Reduce Fuels and Protect Communities;

• Snag Canyon Shows Logging Can Help;

• Wildfire Impacts on Hawaii's Coral Reefs;

• Wildfire Partners Program for Defensible Space in Boulder County.

Newsletter #23

• Four-part video series Colorado's Forests: Challenges and Opportunities, https://vimeo.com/87307649

• Study finds cost-share effective for motivating homeowners to create defensible space

• Weaverville California, a fire adapted community survives the Oregon Fire

• Oregon offers new class: Citizen Fire Academy

• Klamath National Forest creates Hospital Liaison program

• Study of western CWPPs finds room for improvement

Newsletter #22

• Web Portal for Colorado Westwide Risk Assessment Info (CO-WRAP)  http://www.coloradowildfirerisk.com

• New Mexico Protects Watersheds and Water with Fuel Treatments

• Utah Develops Catastrophic Wildfire Reduction Strategy

• Keep Oregon Green Kicks Off Football Themed Education Campaign

• Arizona Manages Fire for Resource Benefit

• San Diego Utility Pays for Helicopters for Firefighting

Newsletter #21

• Smokejumpers job description with a video, 

• Military surplus equipment program reinstated, 

• 2013 NASF Communities at Risk report, 

• How national fire policy affects small woodland owners, 

• Wildfires & climate change video, 

• Upcoming events.

Newsletter #20

• California Adds National Guard Resources and 2 C-130J Tankers with MAFFS;

• Videos on Prescribed Fire in Pacific Northwest and Oklahoma

• Stephen Pyne essay Squaring the Triangle: Fire at San Carlos;

• SAF Position Paper on Wildland Fire Management;

• San Juan Fire Proves Forest Thinning Works;

• Fire Management Today issue on Fire Adapted Communities

Newsletter #19

• President Obama declares areas of Washington State a disaster area due to the Carlton Complex Fire;

• Using Satellites, Lasers and Drones in Firefighting;

• Landscape Resiliency One Year After the West Fork Complex Fire;

• Juniper Wood Industry in Oregon (video);

• "After the Fire" Toolkit;

• Speakers Sought for 2015 Backyards & Beyond Conference.