Background

With two record-breaking years of megafire, and devastated communities across the state, it’s not surprising that fire was on lawmakers’ minds this spring. In the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers explored tools for creating more fire-resilient forests, including the passage of House Bill 2928, the Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot project. The bill provides funding for prescribed fire on at-risk forests, as well as an exploration of current barriers to expanding the role of controlled fire in creating and maintaining fire-resilient forests.

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All Internal Rights. Prescribed fire in ponderosa pine forest in fall . Photo by John Marshall.