Episode 1: An Unprecedented Threat

In January 2022, the Forest Service launched a 10-year initiative, “Confronting the Wildfire Crisis Strategy - A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests.”
This strategy highlights the 50 million acres in need of management to reduce the risk of wildfire - with 20 million acres on national forests and an additional 30 million acres across other high-risk jurisdictions.
This five-part video series looks at one of these areas, a landscape in Northern California - the Klamath River Basin - and the 10 million acres spanning the Klamath, Modoc, Siskiyou, Trinity and Humboldt counties, of which 55% are on national forests.