Recommendations:

  • Smoke Regulations: Decrease regulations to allow for more prescribed burning and an increase in the amount of air pollution allow for a prescribed burn.
  • Education and Outreach: Start creating outreach programs for local communities that are in WUI hazard areas to educate on the importance of firewising, how to protect their property, and help reduce the focus of suppression to save homes in case of a wildfire. 
  • Suppression Costs: Reduce suppression costs in the long run by implementing adaptive management strategies that improve the health of different ecosystems and improve resilience to fire.
  • Adaptive Management: Start implementing more informed adaptive management strategies and education resource managers on the key concepts of adaptive management to effectively the idea.
  • More Personnel for Prescribed Burning: Start to either create jobs focusing specifically on prescribed burning and taking care of burn piles or extend the duties of other positions in the Forest Service that are being underutilized like Forestry Technicians to be included in such tasks. 

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