Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests. Many thanks to: Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Smith River Alliance, Firebrand Resiliency Collective, Illinois Valley Community Development Organization, and A Greater Applegate.Abatzoglou, J.T., and A.P. Many partner organizations contributed to the creation of the toolkit. The Forest & Fire Toolkit is part of KS Wild’s ongoing efforts to support community adaptation to wildfires and a changing climate. This includes, for example rural residents, forest workers, landowners, recreationists, and nature-based businesses.

The toolkit is geared towards people who are affected by forest management and who have a desire to become involved in the decision making process for our forests. There is no future free from wildfire, but there are actions we can take to help prepare for the next one. Increasing residential development into forestlands places more homes and communities at-risk from wildfire. The Siskiyou region is experiencing warmer temperatures, with longer periods of dry weather and drought. Other forest practices, like clearcut logging, can damage watersheds and increase fire hazard. Forest practices, like thinning near homes and prescribed fire, can help protect communities. Rural communities are surrounded by public and private industrial forest land, and the decisions made in these forests affect everyone living in the watershed. If you want to know more about fire safety in areas outside the scope of this toolkit please go to Why is this important? Most importantly, this is a resource to prepare your family, your home, and your community for a wildfire emergency. We include invaluable resources on how to take part in federal land management activities and to gain a better understanding of the role of fire in these forests.

Our goal is to first provide you with a description of the agencies that manage five million acres of public land and provide oversight on nearly two million acres of private industrial forest land in southern Oregon and northern California.

The Forest & Fire Toolkit is a “one-stop-shop” of the resources you need to acquaint yourself with forests in the Siskiyou region-a subset of the larger 10 million acre Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion.

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