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Emergency Stabilization & Burned Area Rehabilitation

Emergency Stabilization & Burned Area Rehabilitation

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Emergency Stabilization and Burned Area Rehabilitation web site is designed to provide Service personnel and the public information on Service emergency stabilization and burned area rehabilitation activities.

Departmental ES and BAR policy is in the Departmental Manual 620 DM 3, and the The Department of the Interior ES and BAR web site provides consolidated Department information.

Service emergency stabilization and burned area rehabilitation supplemental policy is in the Service Manual 095 FW 3.9 with Service specific policy guidance and programmatic procedures provided in the FWS Fire Management Handbook - Chapter 11, and Septermber 5, 2007, Emergency Stabilization Cost Containment Memorandum. Other policy guidance and references include: Department Manual 620 DM 3 and the Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response Guidebook and Interagency Burned Area Rehabilitation Guidebook.

The Plans Status page provides project summary information and links to .pdf versions of individual post wildfire recovery plans, plan amendments, and final accomplishment reports. This is a link to Google Earth spatial locations of all FWS Emergency Stabilization and Burned Area Rehabilitation projects since 1998. Location bubble numbers indicate year of the wildfire 1990s and 2000s.

DOI ES and BAR links the Department of the Interior Emergency Stabilization and Burned Area Rehabilitation web page.

The FWS ES and BAR Contacts page lists the names and addresses of FWS emergency stabilization and burned area rehabilitation program coordinators. 

(.pdf and .kmz files require Acrobat Reader and Google Earth applications respectively to view.)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages public land in every U.S. state and territory, including 547 national wildlife refuges and 69 national fish hatcheries.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages 75 million burnable acres, including 24 million acres of forest/brushland and 4 million acres of grassland.

More than 50% of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands in the continental U.S. (and more than 90% in Alaska) include fire-adapted ecosystems with vegetation dependent on periodic fire.

An average of 500 wildfires burn 260,000 acres each year on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands. The Service also burns about 300,000 acres a year using prescribed fire.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service annual fire program budget is approximately $80 million.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employs more than 530 permanent fire professionals, along with 270 seasonal and temporary fire employees during fire season.

More than 3,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are qualified to assist with wildland fire management on an interagency basis.

The U.S. Fish and Wildland Service Fire Management Program protects more than 700 communities and wildland-urban interface areas.

Historically, an acre was the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day. This measures 90% of a football field. There are 640 acres in a square mile.

More than 90% of the hazardous fuels reduction by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is completed using prescribed fire.