Three years after the Biden administration launched a decadelong plan to save national forests from wildfire, the Forest Service looks ready to retire or revamp the effort.
The wildfire crisis strategy, as the last administration called it, proposed thinning, prescribed fire and other measures on an additional 20 million acres over 10 years. But it didn’t do much for the timber industry, and President Donald Trump’s team is leaning toward a more logging-oriented approach.
Even the name “wildfire crisis strategy” is falling out of use, said a Forest Service employee who’s noticed officials shunning the term and who requested anonymity to discuss the agency’s inner workings.
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“I would say it’s a little more than a rebranding,” the employee said.
