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IN THIS EDITION: Best wishes to staff moving on, research updates, and we celebrate our work from Fiscal Year 2022. THIS IS A PRODUCT OF THE RESTORATION ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING PROGRAM FOR THE SOUTHWEST (RAMPS).

To further prescribed fire knowledge, Hoffman and a group of researchers spanning fire science fields are conducting more than 30 experimental prescribed burns across the southeastern United States with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program’s Wildland Fire Science Initiative. Research burns at Fort Stewart, Georgia, which involves nearly 50 fire scientists from around the country will add to the science that informs land manage...

Today, Deputy Secretary Beaudreau announced that over $5.9 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support fuels management projects in Nevada.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Interior department announced it has invested over $5.1 million to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects in Colorado during fiscal year 2022. The funding comes from President Biden’s...

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.

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...