The U.S. Department of the Interior says it’ll allocate nearly $80 million for wildfire management throughout the country.
Officials say it’ll help expand fire detection and risk reduction, and also improve communication technology used by incident management teams.
A large portion of the funding will be dedicated to landscape restoration in burned areas including a program to develop locally adapted seeds and plant materials to revegetate sites that are unlikely to naturally recover from severe fire.
About $11 million will go to fuels reduction initiatives including mechanical vegetation removal, chemical treatments of invasive species and prescribed fire projects.
The Biden administration is investing about $1.5 billion over five years to support the firefighter workforce and increase wildfire resilience.
