Prescribed fire policy barriers and opportunities: a diversity of challenges and strategies across the West
This document covers the carrying out of a project investigating policies that limit managers’ ability to conduct prescribed fire on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the 11 Western states.
The goals for this phase of the work was to understand the extent to which various policies are limiting prescribed fire programs, strategies to maintain and increase prescribed fire activities, and opportunities for improving policies or policy implementation. To understand the diversity of challenges faced and strategies in use across the West, a legal analysis of the laws and policies that affect prescribed fire programs was conducted on Forest Service and BLM lands and approximately 60 interviews with land managers, air regulators, state agency partners, and several NGO partners.
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