Research: The Importance of Community Wildfire Protection Planning
Since the inception of the Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003 there have been literally thousands of CWPP’s written across the nation. My hope is that one of the outcomes of all of this hard work is that more and more communities take the opportunity commit to the Firewise Communities/USA recognition program. The benefits of this voluntary approach results in community action in a critical area that the government agencies do not have domain - the private landowner/homeowner site and the shared common spaces that exist within these critical areas where life and property are most at risk.
Some of the more salient best management practices that were identified by the article include:
- Paying attention to framing the problem
- Choosing the correct scale where participants can make things happen
- Taking steps to facilitate implementation and long-term success