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State review: BLM and partners report fuels treatments change fire behavior and aid suppression in Utah
Summary
A multi‑agency review and a USU analysis presented at the WRI conference found that many fuels treatments intersected by wildfires altered fire behavior and helped control fires; treatment encounter rates were higher than some recent press accounts suggested.
A retrospective review presented to WRI partners found that fuels treatments carried out by BLM, Forest Service and state agencies in Utah frequently altered wildfire behavior when fires intersected treated areas and often assisted suppression efforts.
Brad (Utah State University, formerly BLM) summarized two decades of treatment work and an interagency dataset tracking fire–treatment encounters. From 2001–2021, BLM‑reported accomplishments included roughly 1.3 million acres treated…
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