Resilient Landscapes

Landscapes, regardless of jurisdictional boundaries are resilient to fire, insect and disease disturbances.

Landscapes, regardless of jurisdictional boundaries are resilient to fire, insect, disease, invasive species and climate change disturbances.

Fire Adapted Communities

Human populations and communities are as prepared as possible to receive, respond to and recover from wildland fire.

Fire Adapted Communities

Human populations and communities are as prepared as possible to receive, respond to and recover from wildland fire.

Safe, Effective, Risk-Based Wildfire Response

All jurisdictions participate in making and implementing safe, effective and risk-based management decisions.

Safe, Effective, Risk-Based Wildfire Response

All jurisdictions participate in making and implementing safe, effective and risk-based management decisions.

The Vision

Extinguish fires when needed

Where wildfires are unwanted or threaten lives, communities and homes, actively utilize all available strategies and tools to suppress fires and its growth.

Use fire where allowable

Utilize prescribed fire and managed wildfire for landscape and ecosystem benefit in the right place, at the right time, under the right conditions.

Manage our natural resources

Use and expand non-fire, cross boundary fuels treatments to increase landscape and community resiliency.

Learn to live with wildland fire

We all have a role in our wildland fire system. We must redeem our individual, community and organizational responsibilities as part of this integrated system.

Annual Prairie Fire, Flint Hills, Kansas by Ryan Donnell.

The Cohesive Strategy pushes us to challenge our current and historical approaches to our rapidly changing wildfire realities and reach beyond our individual silos and jurisdictions to collectively:

Define and understand risk
Collaboratively set landscape level and community-wide priorities
Share and co-manage risk across boundaries and jurisdictions
Accept some short-term risk for long-term benefit
Collectively invest in outcome-based approaches and activities, rather than outputs

As we stand on the precipice of a new wildland fire paradigm, we have the opportunity to define it,
not be defined by it.

Guiding Principles

The Western Region

The Western Region is chartered to the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and charged with facilitating implementation of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. Utilizing a network approach, the Western Regional Strategy Committee facilitates learning and understanding of what the Cohesive Strategy is, and what it looks like at local, state, Tribal and federal levels.

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