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The Pacific Islands Forestry Committee (PIFC) Executive Committee convened for its 2024 meeting from October 21 to 23 in Majuro, Marshall Islands.

The Good Neighbor Authority North Zone Revegetation project was designed to collaboratively innovate new approaches to the Salmon-Challis National Forest’s (SCNF) backlog of reforestation needs, caused by decades of landscape-scale wildfires.

The Council of Western State Foresters (CWSF) and the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition (WFLC) assist with multiple forestry-related grant programs in the Western region. The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG), and Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) are three main grant opportunities that CWSF/WFLC staff help program managers and applicants learn about program updates and apply for the grant programs.

The Sandstone Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) Fuels and Forest Health Project is located on the Medicine Bow – Routt National Forest in southeast Wyoming. The project resides on the western slope of the Sierra Madre Range in one of the headwaters of the Colorado River.

A Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) agreement between the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection and the Tongass National Forest is intended to help conduct timber sales on remote Alaskan islands.

The North Prong Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) Projects are located on the High Desert Bureau of Land Management (BLM) District in southeast Wyoming.

The July 2024 Wellington Fire, near Breckenridge, Colorado, was quickly contained thanks to prior Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) fuel reduction efforts by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) in partnership with the White River National Forest, Summit County Open Space, and Town of Breckenridge, highlighting the importance of such mitigation work in preventing wildfire spread.

The North Dakota Forest Service (NDFS) and the Dakota Prairie Grassland (DPG) Woodlands & Grasslands Sustainability Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) Agreement provides a framework for the cooperative effort to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services on and off National Forest System (NFS) lands. The agreement covers the entirety of the DPG, and the first project underway is fuels reduction within the 7000-acre ponderosa pine stand located on mixed ownership in Slope County.

This month, we are pleased to feature Valerie Hipkins, Station Director for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest Research Stations.