Wildland fires Forest Service and BLM need better information and systematic approach for assessing the risks of environmental effects : report to congressional requesters.
Title | Wildland fires Forest Service and BLM need better information and systematic approach for assessing the risks of environmental effects : report to congressional requesters. PDF eBook |
Author | Barry T. Hill |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1428938788 |
Decades of fire suppression, as well as changing land management practices, have caused vegetation to accumulate and become altered on federal lands. Concerns about the effects of wildland fires have increased efforts to reduce fuels on federal lands. These efforts also have environmental effects. The requesters asked GAO to (1) describe effects from fires on the environment, (2) assess the information gathered by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on such effects, and (3) assess the agencies approaches to environmental risks associated with reducing fuels. This report recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior (1) develop a plan to implement the agencies monitoring framework, (2) develop guidance that formalizes the assessment of landscape-level risks to ecosystems, and (3) clarify existing guidance, working with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to assess the risks of environmental effects from reducing fuels.
Wildland Fires
Title | Wildland Fires PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Wildfires |
ISBN |
Wildland Fires
Title | Wildland Fires PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Wildfires |
ISBN |
Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects
Title | Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects PDF eBook |
Author | Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Decades of fire suppression, as well as changing land management practices, have caused vegetation to accumulate and become altered on federal lands. Concerns about the effects of wildland fires have increased efforts to reduce fuels on federal lands. These efforts also have environmental effects. Congressional requesters asked GAO to (1) describe effects from fires on the environment, (2) assess the information gathered by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on such effects, and (3) assess the agencies' approaches to environmental risks associated with reducing fuels.
Gao-04-705 - Wildland Fires
Title | Gao-04-705 - Wildland Fires PDF eBook |
Author | United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2018-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781984929273 |
GAO-04-705 Wildland Fires: Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects
Wildland Fires
Title | Wildland Fires PDF eBook |
Author | United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2017-10-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781978470262 |
Wildland Fires: Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects
Wildland Fires
Title | Wildland Fires PDF eBook |
Author | U S Government Accountability Office (G |
Publisher | BiblioGov |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781289022303 |
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.