SWERI
10.694
(1) To enhance the capacity to develop, transfer, apply, monitor, and regularly update practical science-based forest restoration treatments that will reduce the risk of severe wildfires, and improve the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior West; (2) to synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research programs to the implementation of forest and woodland restoration on a landscape scale; (3) to facilitate the transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge required to understand the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and landscapes; (4) to require the Institutes established under this Act to collaborate with Federal agencies to use ecological restoration and wildfire treatments; (5) to assist land managers in restoration-based applications and new management technologies; (6) to provide technical assistance to collaborative efforts by affected entities; and (7) to assist Federal and non-Federal land managers in providing information to the public on the role of fire and fire management.
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Several awards yielded notable accomplishments, including: an assessment of the governance of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP); the advancement of understanding and practice of collaborative, collective decision-making and action-taking utilizing geospatial data and decision-support products in the arena of wildland fire management; a collaboration with practitioners and community members in New Mexico to develop participatory frameworks that support community-level wildfire mitigation and post-fire restoration planning; the quantification of the ecological impacts of watershed and riparian restoration in the Southwest through collaboration with community partners; an evaluation of the ecological impacts of forest restoration and fuel reduction treatments that have been conducted in New Mexico as part of the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program; and the refinement of management of mixed conifer forests by creating statistically based forest classifications.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
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