As the climate warms and the number of people living in dense forests rises, more is needed to prepare for future wildfires, experts say.
found that in the past three decades far more severe wildfires have started on private land and moved into national forests than the other way around, further underscoring the need for private owners to take action.
That’s where stewardship foresters like Pettigrew come in. He does everything from enforcing fire and forest laws to educating landowners, connecting them to experts and helping them write management plans and apply for grants. Oregon has about 75,000 family forest owners, and the whole country has more than 10 million. Few will do management work without government outreach and assistance. The most recent Forest Service survey of private landowners with more than 10 acres of forest found that about 25 percent don’t do any management and that only 11 percent have written plans for their property.The budget for the federal Forest Stewardship program plunged from 2007 to 2014.
There are signs in Washington and the state capitals that officials recognize the problem and that the budget shortfalls will soon ease.in programs to reduce risk, from community preparation to ecosystem restoration and fuel reduction.seeks to massively increase the number of acres that are treated to reduce hazardous fuel and promises to pour money into fire prevention programs.
When they bought the property, Ken said, they had no idea how to take care of the overgrown forest. “We thought we were doing the best we could … but we accomplished almost nothing except restoring the cabin.” By 2021, they had accomplished almost every goal in their plan. All that was left was a prescribed fire. The Forest Service had plans to do one that would have included their property.
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