Forest Service Pilot Restoration Program
Creates Efficiencies
In 2012, a major U.S. Forest Service
pilot program treated some 800,000
acres of federal forestland to help
protect them from catastrophic
wildfire, while improving the
condition of three major watersheds
in the interior West.
Achieving its goals in almost every performance category,
the Integrated Resource Restoration program fits into
the larger nation-wide restoration work of the U.S. Forest
Service, which led the restoration of more than 4 million
acres of forestland in 2012. Under the program, landscape-level projects that would otherwise be piecemealed together
over many years were funded in a single year with a single
budget, providing program managers the flexibility to
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prioritize restoration projects. Program managers, instead of
competing for individual program funds to pay for specific
projects, are now looking for opportunities to integrate
multiple restoration projects and priorities.
The U.S. Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public
land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and
maintains the largest forestry research organization in the
world. Forest Service lands contribute more than $13 billion
to the economy each year through visitor spending alone.
Those same lands provide 20 percent of the nation’s clean water
supply, a value estimated at $27 billion per year.
The improvement of watersheds will continue to be a
priority for the agency. In a report issued in January, Forest
Service researchers predicted that water resources will grow
scarcer in coming decades, especially in the western states
as pressures such as climate change, encroachment and
increased demand continue to impact the nation’s forests.
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