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McCall council hears All Lands Partnership wildfire plan, directs staff to engage
Summary
Federal and Forest Service partners briefed McCall City Council on the Southwest Idaho All Lands Partnership’s risk-mapping and community programs; council members said the city should continue engagement and consider piloting household assessments.
McCall City Council received a presentation from representatives of the Southwest Idaho All Lands Partnership and U.S. Forest Service on wildfire risk reduction and unanimously signaled support for continued city engagement.
The presenters — Sam Leishman, Partnership Forester for the Boise and Payette National Forest; John Riling, project manager for the Southwest Idaho wildfire crisis landscape (U.S. Forest Service); and Tim Leishman, who also supports the landscape effort — described risk-mapping, new funding pools and a set of community-level tools they say can be used in McCall to prioritize where treatments will reduce wildfire risk most cost-effectively.
Council members were told McCall lies within a polygon the Forest Service identified as one of the nation’s top 10 wildfire crisis landscapes.…
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