Fuels Management Resource Library

Fuels Management Policy

• Bureau of Indian Affairs Release Memo
• PMS 484 - Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide 
• Forest Management Policy

Fuels Management Guidance

• Managing Long Term Fires Guide - June 2016
• ​​​​​​Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models: A Comprehensive Set for Use with Rothermel's Surface Fire Spread Model (2005)

NWCG Fuels Management Committee

• Fuels Management Committee
• Interagency Publications
  • PMS - 424 Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide
  • PMS - 430 Interagency Standards for Wildland Fire Module Operations
  • PMS - 481 Fire Effects Guide
  • PMS - 484 Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide (2004)
  • PMS - 485 Agency Administrator Ignition Authorization
  • PMS - 486 Prescribed Fire Go/No-Go Checklist

Tribal Consultation & Fuels Management Direction

• 2011 OWF Hazardous Fuels Prioritization and Allocation System (HFPAS) Memorandum
• DOI Program Priorities Memo - June 1, 2011
• Federal Fund for Wildfire Control Management
• September 2007, Government Accounting Office GAO-07-1168

• The True Cost of Wildfires - Western Forestry Leadership Coalition
• Fuels Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring Report, Interaction of the Dog Head Fire with Fuelbreak Treatments, Pueblo of Isleta, NM
• Northwest Region 2015 Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Report
• Wallow Fire Fuel Treatment Effectiveness On the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
• Response to the Rock Creek Fire to Prescribed Fire - Lloyd R. Fuller, PhD (June 2013) Fort Apache Agency
• Squaring the Triangle: Fire at San Carlos - Stephen Pyne (2014)
• Restoring the Land with Fire: Fire as Spirit, Fire as Tool