LAST DAY! Firefighters, sign on to protect roadless areas today!

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Roadless Rule Sign-On Letter from Wildland Firefighters The Trump Administration is proposing to remove the 25-year old Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects 45 million acres of national forest lands from new road-building. The Administration's int...

Wildland firefighters, we need you! 🔥

FUSEE will hand-deliver a letter from firefighters to Congressional offices asking them to uphold the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (aka Roadless Rule). Sign on to our letter by April 16th to make your voice heard!

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Trump wants to remake the way we fight wildfires. The stakes couldn’t be higher. The new Wildland Fire Service will consolidate all Interior Department firefighting efforts as a lacking winter and ongoing drought promises a bad fire season.

Unifying federal fire management into a single agency has its merits, but this is the wrong time and the worst administration to make this happen successfully.

Firefighters are all aboard a slow motion train wreck as it hurdles towards a burning trestle...

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This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer - Inside Climate News Recently released data show how drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat, all exacerbated by climate change, could be priming the nation for a long wildfire season.

It's going to be an exceptionally long, hot, dry, smoky summer. Meanwhile, lots of uncertainty and anxiety among federal firefighters awaiting more info about their roles in Trump's US Wildland Fire Service.

Bad combo: climate chaos + Trump tyranny.

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Sue Husari: A Life in Fire, Leadership, and Care — Women’s History Month Spotlight — Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology A historical woman in wildland fire, Sue Husari has paved the way for women firefighters across the country. In her work building positive fire crew cultures, promoting firefighter wellness, and takin...

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we had the honor of talking with Sue Husari, a historic woman in wildland fire. 🔥

Read her story on the Spotfire! Blog:
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Trump admin seeks industry help for wildfire agency plan USDA is asking contractors and others to weigh in before it launches a study on moving wildfire management to the Interior Department.

Last year FUSEE urged Congress to fund an independent study of the costs and impacts of Trump's fire consolidation scheme--to take a hard look before Trump leaps.

Nearly a year later, Trump is just starting the hiring process for a contract researcher.

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Questions mount as Interior’s wildfire agency takes shape The administration is consolidating the federal response to wildfires across the West, shifting 3,900 firefighters to the Wildland Fire Service.

Questions are mounting about the mission, structure, and function of Trump's U.S. Wildland Fire Service, but no answers are forthcoming even when asked by Congress.

Meanwhile, concerns are understandably bubbling up from the firefighters conscripted into the USWFS...

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Fire Season Started Early. Is the Federal Government Ready? Record drought and vanishing snowpack are testing a federal firefighting force in the middle of an unfinished reorganization.

Wildfire season is upon us, but Trump's new federal firefighting force, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, is still 'flailing' to launch.

It seems that moving fast and breaking things on your own without plans made with partners results in...breaking things.

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The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet - Inside Climate News Despite an Oregon court ruling in January invalidating a rule that enabled clear cutting, it’s far from the last salvo in the battle for how to fight fires or manage forests—and who can profit from it...

Categorical exclusions (C.E.) for large-scale federal projects are fundamentally anti-democratic and always anti-environmental.

Trump and his industry allies are waiting for the next wildfire disaster to pounce with C.E.s in FOFA, Farm Bill, etc.

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Living on Earth: Fires and Logging Justice A decades-old US Forest Service rule that’s been used to supposedly reduce wildfire risk through large-scale logging while bypassing environmental review has been deemed unlawful by a federal court in...

In the face of a twin climate-wildfire crisis we need to act urgently and wisely, not react blindly. The fed's abuse of categorical 'excusions' (sic) to shortcut environmental analysis, public input, and legal accountability should end. Courts have now agreed.

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Rescinding 'Roadless Rule' threatens Oregon's public lands - Street Roots Cascade Lakes, Lost Lake by Mt. Hood, Larch Mountain in the Columbia River Gorge, Joseph Creek and Oregon Dunes on the coast — these are among the places protected from road building, logging and mini...

Trump claims ending the Roadless Rule will aid wildfire prevention and suppression. But it will expand the number of human-caused wildfires and add to the risks and burdens of wildland firefighters.
Roadless wildlands need protection, not extraction.

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Operational Ecology and the Future of the Wildland Firefighter — Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology by M. Beasley “This is not about choosing between suppression and stewardship. It is about recognizing that both are part of the profession . The most capable firefighters in our system have always...

"Fire suppression will always remain a core mission.
But the most effective wildfire strategy will also recognize that fire itself—applied skillfully and responsibly—is one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce future wildfire risk."

Read our latest Spotfire! Blog👇
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We're hoping to hear directly from you, as those who know best the impacts of this consolidation, with this input survey. 100% anonymous.

Can consolidation be an opportunity for transformation?

👉 tinyurl.com/USWFS-Survey

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Wildfire Seasons Are Starting to Overlap. That Spells Trouble for Firefighting.

Ramping up fossil fuel burning and wildfire suppression is like spraying gasoline from a fire hose on flames. The Trump Administration wants it both ways: drill, baby, drill, and fight, fight, fight! The outcome: burn, baby, burn.

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Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?

Trump is already burning bridges of international cooperation among wildland fire services in Canada, Mexico, and Australia. When we ask for help, will they respond?

Now they will have another reason to refuse: the whole world is burning all at the same time.

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Dem leaders of key House and Senate committees state their strong opposition to Trump's U.S. Wildland Fire Service.
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This seems to be more than another performative "strongly worded letter." But what are the consequences for the Admin's non-reply?

Democrats sound alarm on Interior reorg's impact on wildfires, land management Unauthorized shifts to staffing could leave DOI agencies underresourced for critical duties, lawmakers say.

Trump basically dares Congress to stop his misuse of taxpayer funds for his new federal firefighting force.

Wildfire season is already here, and the continuing cuts, chaos, and confusion afflicting federal firefighters will hit Congress's constituents hard!

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Interior department moves to consolidate its firefighters into one agency With no dedicated funding for the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service, how are those in land management reacting?

Trump's new federal firefighting force, the US Wildland Fire Service, is an unfunded mandate that Congress refused to fund.

Trump believes that as the Unitary Executive, he can spend taxpayer money any way he wants, including on his new "Fire Force."

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Trump’s new Wildland Fire Service is failing to ignite Wildfires are a growing threat. Do we need a new federal agency to help?

A virtual townhall meeting for DOI firefighters is happening today to answer questions about the mission & organizational structure of the USWFS.

Since planning for the USWFS has been a top-down, top-secret affair, there are more questions than answers!

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Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not. - Inside Climate News A House hearing exposed sharp divisions over whether loosening environmental laws and expanding logging will protect communities from catastrophic fires. Scientists urged a shift toward investing in f...

Dr. Dave Calkin, retired USFS wildland fire scientist, gave great testimony at today's House hearing on FOFA.

Among his best: "There is no substitute for fire in our wildlands. We need fire in those landscapes."

FOFA's logging agenda denies that vital fact.

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Queer and young, he’s part of a generational shift in wildland firefighting Kyle Trefny spends hours reading policy reports and combing through data as a researcher with the University of Oregon’s Ecosystem Workforce Program and an advocate for people who work in wildland fir...

"At FireGeneration Collaborative, [Kyle Trefny and Ryan Reed] are reimagining fire culture to support a more diverse workforce while centering Indigenous leadership."

FireGen's co-founder Kyle Trefny was highlighted in Lookout Euguene-Springfield 🔥

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Trump signed the FY26 Interior Appropriations bill into law, but Congress explicitly refused to fund his new agency, the US Wildland Fire Service (USWFS).

Regardless, Trump charges ahead with his unfunded mandate in defiance of Congress, robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Will Congress uphold the law?

Fix Our Forests Act makes big wildfire response changes. Expert says it also has harmful provisions Tim Ingalsbee is executive director of the Oregon-based nonprofit Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology and said the bill is one of the most significant pieces of wildfire-related legisla...

The Fix Our Forests Act is a mixed bag of good, bad, and ugly forest management provisions.

Before we can "fix" our forests, we need to fix our fires. Shift the paradigm from extractive logging & reactive firefighting to proactive prescribed & cultural burning.

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Federal judge nixes rule that enabled clearcutting in the name of taming wildfires The Forest Service didn’t make a “reasoned decision” in exempting timber harvests from environmental review.

Word of a federal court ruling against U.S. Forest Service's use of categorical exclusions for logging schemes in the name of "wildfire prevention" is spreading.

We need more science-backed analysis, public input, and legal accountability in the USFS, not less.

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Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court - Inside Climate News The Forest Service didn’t make a ‘reasoned decision’ in using a categorical exclusion to exempt timber harvests from environmental reviews to ease wildfire mitigation and habitat improvement, the judg...

A federal court decision could throw cold water on the Fix Our Forests Act.

Categorical exclusions (CEs) are about plundering public lands with less scientific analysis, informed public input, or legal oversight when we actually need more of all that.

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The U.S. Wildland Fire Service has officially launched; but Congress has decided not to fund it The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a development that came the same week that the U.S. Congress declined to fund i...

The Trump admin is creating and funding its new agency, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, in defiance of Congress and without any expert or external input.

It is leaping before looking, flying by the seat of its pants, making it all up as it goes along.

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Interior launches consolidated U.S. Wildland Fire Service | Capital Press U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.

Congress refused to fund Trump's consolidation of federal fire programs, but he thinks changing the word from consolidation to "unification" gives the "Unitary Executive" a blank check to spend Interior Appropriations as he wishes.

Word games conning the Congress!

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Interior’s new Fire Service could siphon off thousands of BLM staff A plan under consideration would move thousands of BLM firefighters and some other staff to the Wildland Fire Service created by Interior Secretary Doug

Trump's new U.S. Wildland Fire Service is poaching firefighters from other federal agencies. This robs agencies of workers who steward public lands when they are not fighting fires, and it cuts off the USWFS from the federal "fire militia." Dumb move!

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Congress Has Doubts About the Trump Administration’s New Wildfire Management Plans - Inside Climate News Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior Department is still forging ahead.

The Trump admin forges ahead creating a new federal agency, the US Wildland Fire Service, despite Congress pointedly refusing to fund it.

With no input going in and little info coming out, the whole thing is a risky investment lacking accountability.

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Interior to Launch U.S. Wildland Fire Service | U.S. Department of the Interior The Department of the Interior today announced it is taking the next step to establish the U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Interior appointed a new leader to oversee the implementation of the new service ...

Congress has wisely refused to fund Trump's decreed consolidation of federal wildland fire programs into a new agency, the USWFS. Regardless, the DOI officially launched this new agency. Firefighters are now being transferred over, but what will be their mission?

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