Healthy Forests Initiative - Examples

How the Healthy Forests Initiative & the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003
are Making a Difference

Last year was a landmark year for positive environmental legislation and actions. Through the Healthy Forests Initiative tools and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 authorities, land management agencies are aggressively improving the health of our forests and rangelands by reducing the risk on catastrophic wildland fire, and disease and insect infestations—They are making a difference for the better.

Making a Difference - Examples

Armijo Springs and Jewitt Gap project - Gila National Forest, New Mexico

Chadron Creek Fuels Reduction project - Nebraska National Forest, Nebraska

Cline Mesa Fuelbreak project - Tonto National Forest

Discovery Trail project - White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire

Davis County Fuels project - Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah

Dry Creek/Spring Creek project - Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests

Four-Notch-Boswell Creek Watershed project - Sam Houston National Forest, Texas

Hayes Creek project - Bitterrot National Forest, Montana

Hazardous fuel projects - Gila National Forest, New Mexico

Healthy Forest Fuels Treatment Project - Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota

Healthy Forests Initiative and Categorical Exclusions - Fremont-Winema National Forests, Oregon

Healthy Forests Initiative and Categorical Exclusions - Gila National Forest, New Mexico

Ninemile Fuel Reduction project - Fremont-Winema National Forests, Oregon

Pine Valley Fuel Break project - Dixie National Forest, Utah

Portneuf Westbench project - Caribou - Targhee National Forest, Idaho

President's Day fuel projects - Wayne National Forest, Ohio

Red-cockaded Woodpecker - Southern Region

Sand Lakes Fuel projects - Huron Manistee National Forest, Michigan

Savant Hazardous Fuel Reduction project - Fishlake National Forest, Utah

Silverthorne project - White River National Forest, Colorado

Star Ranch project - Boise National Forest, Idaho

Thunderbird Ecosystem Management project - Cibola National Forest, New Mexico

White Mountain Stewardship project - Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona

For more information on the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and the Healthy Forests Initiative, visit http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/ or http://www.doi.gov/hfi/newhfi/