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In Arizona, the Poco Pino Fuels Reduction Project, completed under a Good Neighbor Authority agreement, completed fuels reduction work on over 700 acres and helped to mitigate the impacts of a landscape-scale fire.

This month, we are pleased to feature Troy Heithecker, Regional Forester for the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region.

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.