Show your support for active forest management
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Our brand NEW Thin The Threat sticker is perfect for your car, cooler, water bottle or computer! Displaying this FREE sticker means you support active management, such as thinning and harvesting diseased trees and dying forests, to prevent catastrophic fire and help our forests be healthier and more fire resilient.
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Now more than ever, it is time to support active forest management in Idaho
Actively managing our forests means using cutting edge technology to map forest health from the air to inform what we do on the ground. It means thinning dead and dying trees and prescribing controlled burning to minimize fuels that lead to catastrophic wildfires. Active management means harvesting and replanting trees in our working forests while protecting air and water quality and wildlife habitat. Forest management works to provide good jobs, healthy forests and the products we use every day!
As anyone in the Western U.S. knows, fire season starts earlier and lasts longer than ever before. Catastrophic wildfires are driven by the amount of available dry fuel. Drought makes things worse. A large percentage of Idaho’s forest are at dangerously high risk of severe fire because of dense and overcrowded conditions and dead and dying trees. At-risk forests burn more intensely and are more likely to destroy existing wildlife habitat, threaten homes and watersheds, damage soils and emit large amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
What is active forest management?
Actively managing our forests means using cutting edge technology to map forest health from the air to inform what we do on the ground. It means thinning dead and dying trees and prescribing controlled burning to minimize fuels that lead to catastrophic wildfires. Active management means harvesting and replanting trees in our working forests while protecting air and water quality and wildlife habitat. Forest management works to provide good jobs, healthy forests and the products we use every day! Click here to learn more about active management and what can be done about threats to our forests.
Idaho’s Good Neighbor Authority
Idaho has been a pioneer in the use of the Good Neighbor Authority since it was authorized nationally in 2015. The Idaho Department of Lands and the US Forest Service collaborate to plan and implement projects that address insect and disease outbreaks, reduce hazardous fuels, improve habitat, and repair Forest Service system roads. Learn more about Idaho’s Good Neighbor Authority here.
#NoBoundariesForestry
In Idaho, state, federal and private landowners are teaming up to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Using cutting edge technology, overgrown forests and dead and diseased trees will be harvested, while protecting air and water quality, wildlife habitat and the places we love. When our forests are healthy, Idaho is healthy. Learn more at NoBoundariesForestry.