The USDA is investing more than $8 million in five new projects to reduce wildfire risk, protect water quality, and improve forest health across the nation. The Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Program is a collaborative effort between USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Forest Service to work across public-private boundaries and at a landscape scale. The $8 million investment in new projects is in addition to $32 million for 24 existing three-year-long Joint Chiefs’ projects. The five new projects are in Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon. “Wildfires have no boundaries, and neither should prevention work,” said Tom Schultz, chief of the National Forest Service. “We need everyone at the table to deliver the kind of active management that will return our forests to health and productivity.” NRCS Chief Aubrey Bettencourt added that funding assistance for private forest landowners is the key to supporting locally-led conservation.
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