This is a new page that we have added to keep you informed about fire management news- - which is a big, expensive and sometimes controversial  job for the Agency.

Daily Situation Report, National Interagency Coordination Center - link to NIFC's current report.

FS Firefighting Succession Planning Process - - Posted 06/07/2010

Cohesive Strategy for Wildfire Management Strategy Forum, By Darrel Kenops

1910 Forest: A Century Later Could it Happen Again, By Jerry Williams, Retired

2009 Quadrennial Fire Review - - Posted 05/31/2010

The attached essay is an expanded version of an earlier essay, now specifically written for the historical archives of the U.S. Forest Service Museum located outside of Missoula, Montana. I hope you'll find the enclosed essay of some value in your considerations for improving fire safety. This e-mail and attached essay may be freely copied and distributed for purposes of promoting fire safety. (link to attachment)

by
George Harpole

SUBJECT: U.S. FOREST SERVICE CHIEF TOM TIDWELL'S MARCH 29TH SPEECH TO THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEF'S MEETING, RENO. NV. - - Posted 4/21/2010

NOTE FROM GEORGE LEANORD

Last spring at the hearing on the 2010 FS budget, Chairman Dicks asked a number of questions for the record about fire funding. The attachment shows the answers which were just recently cleared by OMB. The discussion about the FLAME ACT refers to the act as it originally passed the House, not the Bill that was adopted. I think you will be interested in the discussion of using suppression money for fire preparedness. As you can see, before we started 2010, we had already obligated 400 million  in suppression funding for fire preparedness.
An interesting can of worms.

THIS IS A BIG 28 PAGE pdf  ILE, CLICK HERE FOR FILE - -  Posted 11/24/2009

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND INTERIOR PRAISE CREATION OF "FLAME" WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION RESERVE FUND - - Posted 11/14/2009

Flame Act 2009; Fact sheet FY 2010 Interior & Environment Appropriations Conference - - Posted 11/02/2009

USFS news Release concerning Station Fire in R5 - - Posted 09/30/2009

From George Leonard,  - - Here is an update on the Senate action on the FLAME Act. Note the request for contacts with Senators indicating support. We particularly need constituents of Senator Feinstein to weigh in since the bill comes under the jurisdiction of her appropriations subcommittee. - -  Posted 09/29/2009

Preliminary Announcement

Link to all Geographic Area Coordination Centers portal page

• After a long hiatus, the fire suppression funding issue is once again beginning to percolate.  We thought it would be good to send out a House FLAME ACT (H.R. 1404) status update, Senate strategy and outreach update and an update on the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Coalition. - - Posted 06/30/2009
  

  • Note from Cecilia Clavet, Wilderness Society; Caitlyn Peel, Council of Western State Foresters and Kathy Lynn, American Foresters
    
    
  • Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Coalitions - Policy Review of Approved Amendments to H.R. 1404 - Flame Act.
    
  
  
• Conservation and interview of Tom Harbour, Director of Fire and Aviation, Washington DC, by George Leonard - -   06/20/2009
  
  
• Study finds that climate’s influence on production, drying of fuels—not higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone—critical determinant of Western wildfire burned area  - - Posted 06/29/2009
  
  
• USFS Fire and Aviation Management FY 2008 Fire Accountability Report  - - Posted 07/01/2009