Promote collaborative planning and management.
1. Develop fair and equitable funding allocation processes, from all sources, based on criteria giving priority to collaborative, strategic landscape-scale restoration, maintenance activities, and treatments that reduce risk to ecosystems, communities, and their values.
2. Ensure planning and funding processes are inclusive of ongoing restoration and maintenance activities to support local collaborative management and response capacities. Develop a plan of action that motivates our leaders and appropriators to take actions and make investments.
3. Promote and coordinate planning and implementation activities across jurisdictional and ownership boundaries. Encourage Federal, state, Tribal and local partners to maximize collaboration and use of existing tools that will expedite the creation and maintenance of landscapes, especially in areas of national and/or global significance.
Short Term (0-2 years) & Ongoing
Other collaborators: State and local governments, Tribes, NGOs, private landowners, NRCS. Supplemental info: HFRA and HFI apply only to USFS and BLM. Other DOI bureaus may choose to apply the principles of that legislation within the limits of their bureau specific authorities and policies. The Ninth Circuit court ruling on the CE portion of the act has affected agency implementation actions that were intended under the act. April 2014 update: Wildfire Disaster Funding act making its way through Congress now, this may influence future processes for allocations.
