The goal of this listing is to provide financial assistance to reduce and mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildland fires on federal land and or adjacent non-federal land and communities and their…

The goal of this listing is to provide financial assistance to reduce and mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildland fires on federal land and or adjacent non-federal land and communities and their natural resources. This will be accomplished through response, rehabilitation, assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring, treatment, and maintenance of hazardous fuels reduction and other wildland fire management activities. Financial assistance will provide for a training and workforce development program with an emphasis on wildland fire management and natural resources skills. The objective of this project is utilize the resources inherent with a large local wildland fire organization to increase the capacity for accomplishing fuels works around various parklands in alaska. This work will reduce risk to existing DOI infrastructure from catastrophic loss from wildland fire, while increasing interagency coordination between state and federal wildland fire cooperators outside of wildfire response management. Beneficiaries include profit organizations, public nonprofitinstitutions organizations, private nonprofit institutions organizations, non-federal government entities, industry and public decision makers, research scientists, engineers, and the general public.