2008 Partnership Highlights
Science Benefits Interagency Fire Planning Effort
Each year, the Federal government spends more than $2 billion on wildland fire prevention, preparedness, suppression, and recovery. These funds are distributed among five Federal agencies—Forest Service, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Land Management. The multi-agency Fire Program Analysis (FPA) is a special effort created to respond to wildland firefighting funding concerns and to develop common interagency decision support tools for wildland fire planning and budgeting. This effort enables federal wildland fire managers to jointly plan for funding allocations that cost-effectively accomplish interagency objectives. FPA also encourages state and local wildland fire partners to participate.
A scientist working with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center is co-leader of the Interagency Science Team (IST), commissioned to provide FPA with scientific support. The original IST—which included 13 scientists from the Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and academia—designed an analytical system to meet FPA needs. More information can be found at http://www.fpa.nifc.gov.
Contact: Danny C. Lee, EFETAC Director, (828) 257-4854, dclee@fs.fed.us
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