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Read Idaho’s Forest Action Plan

Understand the Good Neighbor Authority.

Read a report about how Western Water is Threatened by Wildfire from the American Forest Foundation

Read about “Forests to Faucets” a USDA Forest Service project

Learn the effects of timber harvest, silvicultural treatments, and wildfire on forest soils in the Sierra Nevada

Read a study from the US Government Accountability Office about what federal officials and nonfederal stakeholders said could improve federal agencies’ and non-federal entities’ ability to reduce wildland fire risk to communities

Learn how fuel treatments saved homes in a 2011 fire on the border of Arizona and New Mexico

Review the National Insect and Disease Forest Risk Assessment 2013-2027

Read a 2011 report called Managing Forests For Carbon Mitigation from Dovetail Partners, Inc.

Read about tools that model decision support for forest treatments from the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials

Review a forest and carbon modeling scenario for the forests of the Inland West from the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials

Read about the “Role of Northwest Forests and Forest Management on Carbon Storage” from the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials