Best Management Practices for Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Best Management Practices for Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Author: United States Department of Agriculture

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781505825602

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A community wildfi re protection plan (CWPP) is a means of bringing local solutions to wildland fi re management. In developing and implementing CWPPs, communities assume a leadership role in reducing wildfi re risk on federal and nonfederal land. Although many communities have created CWPPs, foresters estimate that less than 10 percent of the communities at risk from wildfi re have CWPPs in place. Th ese communities can learn a great deal from the experiences of those who have developed CWPPs before them. In this publication, we identify best management practices for CWPP development and implementation based on the experiences of 13 communities in 8 states. Th ese communities represent much of the social and ecological diversity found across the U.S. in the Wildland- Urban Interface (WUI)-where human development meets forested areas.

Best management practices for creating a community wildfire protection plan
Best management practices for creating a community wildfire protection plan

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9781505825602

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) is a means of bringing local solutions to wildland fire management. In developing and implementing CWPPs, communities assume a leadership role in reducing wildfire risk on federal and nonfederal land. In this publication, we identify best management practices for CWPP development and implementation based on the experiences of 13 communities in 8 states. These communities represent much of the social and ecological diversity found across the U.S. in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)--where human development meets forested areas.