Tongass National Forest RESTORING AMERICA’S FORESTS

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Map: Liz Rank ([email protected]); RAF data v. 16 Oct 2015; basemap © 2013 National Geographic Society The Nature Conservancy is restoring forests for people, water and wildlife. The Nature Conservancy’s Panther Knob Preserve in West Virginia. © Kent Mason

ABOUT THIS PROJECT WORKING TOGETHER America’s forests are home to the world’s oldest, tallest, and Bureau of Indian Affairs largest trees. Our forests: Bureau of Land Management • provide half our nation’s water National Association of State Foresters National Fish and Wildlife Foundation • sustain thousands of species National Forest Foundation • support one million forest products jobs National Marine Fisheries Service • absorb 13 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions National Park Service • offer 1 million square miles for recreation, hunting and Property Casualty Insurers Association fishing USDA Natural Resources Conservation • generate $14 billion in economic activity on U.S. Forest © Kent Mason Service Service lands alone U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Today, approximately 60 million acres of federal forestland — U.S. Bureau of Reclamation an area the size of Oregon — are at risk for unnaturally severe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fires. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Nature Conservancy’s Restoring America’s Forests program U.S. Forest Service (RAF) seeks to double the pace of U.S. federal forest restoration Forest products industry to at least seven million acres a year in coordination with a Municipal and state utilities network of state-based staff in 23 states. Non-governmental organizations Recreation and tourism interests State fish and wildlife agencies, water OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS and air agencies  We helped win a $74 million increase in hazardous fuels Tribes, county and local governments ©Alan W. Eckert treatment funding in 2014 that will protect communities, water and wildlife. LOOKING AHEAD  We quadrupled funding over 5 years for the federal In the next year Restoring America’s Forests will: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which has reduced the risk of megafires across • Pursue passage of the Wildfire Disaster 1.5 million acres and restored more than 700 miles of forested Funding Act to improve forest management waterways. resources • Seek to to $80  We helped lead a coalition effort to securepermanent double CFLRP funding million a year for expanded restoration Nature Conservancy staff from 23 states make up the Restoring legislation for stewardship contracting. In 2015 America’s Forest team. © Chris Topik/TNC alone, about 25 percent of Forest Service management efforts accomplishments were attributed to stewardship contracting. • Collaborate with several state chapters to generate non-federal funding used to  efforts in 13 landscapes, seven of LEADING THE PROJECT Fire Learning Network enhance water security, forest health and which are RAF demonstration sites, are engaging more than community resilience Chris Topik 250 partners in 20 states in multi-stakeholder collaborative Director planning and restoration. • Promote implementation of the National Wildland Fire Management Cohesive Arlington, Virginia  Community resilience to fire is being accelerated by the Strategy (703) 841-4504 , currently [email protected] Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network • Demonstrate in three to six strategic places working in 18 project sites around the nation, five of which how communities and government agencies Russ Hoeflich include or are adjacent to RAF demonstration sites. have collaborated to allow controlled fire to VP and Senior Policy Advisor  We have reached every National Forest and Army Corps of follow or replace mechanical treatments, and Portland, Oregon Engineer campsite in the Recreation.gov database with the allow inevitable wildfires to burn as part (503) 720-6656 Don’t Move Firewood message. of wildland fire management. [email protected]

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