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Environment

Environment

  •  In December, members of several tribal nations conducted a cultural burn on the Sequoia National Forest, an event that was enabled by a co-stewardship agreement.
    Forest Service
    U.S. federal agencies and sovereign tribal agencies often work together on shared goals like managing wildfire, improving wildlife habitat and other issues. A new repository collects a number of these co-stewardship - or sovereign-to-sovereign - agreements in an effort to help tribes and others better understand their possible uses.
  •  The Four Corners wildfire is burning west of Lake Cascade in Central Idaho.
    U.S. Forest Service - Payette National Forest
    A new paper finds that current wildfire suppression policies can increase fire severity as much as decades of fuel accumulation and climate change. Using fire models, the area burned annually grew much faster under current suppression policy when compared to a policy of allowing low- and moderate-intensity blazes to burn.