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This is part of $103 million allocated by the Department of the Interior earlier this year to reduce wildfire risk, mitigate impacts and rehabilitate burned areas. The additional funding will help complete fuels treatments on nearly 2 million acres nationwide this fiscal year, a substantial increase over the prior year. 

Today, Interior announced that it has invested over $3.3 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support fuels management projects in Alaska.

The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (otherwise known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL), which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021, has made...

Today, Interior announced that it has invested over $3.5 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support fuels management projects in Idaho.

Today, Deputy Secretary Beaudreau announced that over $10 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support fuels management projects in Arizona.

Two Auburn University graduate students in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment’s Forest and Fire Ecology Lab have been selected to receive grant funding through the Joint Fire Science Program of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service.

BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Interior Department will create a health and wellbeing program for wildland firefighters and boost spending on firefighting efforts by $103 million in fiscal 2022, Secretary De...

Those who fight wildfires in U.S. to get mental health care under new program unveiled by federal government.

The U.S. Interior Department will create a health and wellbeing program for wildland firefighters and boost spending on firefighting efforts by $103 million in fiscal 2022, secretary Deb Haaland said Friday.

Standing up a targeted interagency effort to provide trauma-informed mental health care is critical.”