USDA Forest Service sets record for prescribed fire treatments in 2024! … The USFS successfully treated over 325,000 acres for forest health in California, including over 72,000 acres treated with prescribed fire. This marks significant progress toward the USFS target of deploying 150,000 acres of beneficial fire in California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire. … Learn more and read California’s beneficial fire plan. >> https://lnkd.in/g2UZsVhg … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #BeneficialFire #GoodFire
Amazing work! Keep going!
Mark Oshana
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Congrats!
President, International Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) | Distinguished Scientist | Professor (Affiliate) UW, OSU | Senior Research Ecologist
3dCongrats on the progress! Every bit helps. As of today's date, wildfires have burned 1,049,956 acres in CA in 2024 and 8,851,142 ac in the US. We need to restore good fire at a scale that can overtake the current severe wildfire influence. Prescribed burning cannot do enough fast enough. Are we applying enough Indigenous cultural burning? Are wildfires working hard enough for us? And are we taking advantage of the positive work of wildfires? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112721007702 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112721008872 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-024-00282-y