State of Alaska, Division of Forestry

This document serves as a template for developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) to guide communities in identifying wildfire risks and prioritizing actions to reduce them. The template emphasizes collaborative development involving local, tribal, state, and federal partners, and focuses on key areas such as prioritized fuel reduction, structural ignitability reduction, and comprehensive risk assessment. Its objective is to help communities reduce wildfire exposure to life, property, and critical infrastructure, thereby enhancing resilience and supporting alignment with hazard mitigation priorities for potential funding.

The Statewide Assessment of Forest Resources for the Alaska Division of Forestry analyzes the conditions, trends, threats, and benefits of forest resources across all ownerships in Alaska. It identifies five core issues: maintaining capacity to control and mitigate wildfire risks, ensuring sustainable forest product output, mitigating forest health threats, enhancing community benefits from forests, and expanding ecosystem services. This assessment informs a comprehensive strategy for conserving working forests, protecting them from harm, and enhancing public benefits from trees and forests, with a focus on identified priority landscapes.

This Forestry Strategic Plan outlines the Division of Forestry's direction for the period 2008-2012, emphasizing its mission to serve Alaskans through forest management and wildland fire protection. The plan is structured around eight key visions, including ensuring clear mandates and authorities, aligning programs and workforce, recruiting and retaining outstanding staff, supporting staff development through training, fostering strong cooperative relationships, engaging with emerging issues, providing excellent equipment and facilities, and maintaining an adaptive strategic planning process. The plan details specific actions and objectives to achieve these goals.

This Statewide Forest Resource Strategy outlines a five-year plan for the State of Alaska, addressing federal and state mandates. It focuses on six key issues: wildfire management, sustainable forest products, forest health protection, community benefits from trees and forests, ecosystem services, and cross-cutting management challenges. The strategy integrates state-mandated and federal-state cooperative programs, defining performance outcomes and specific action strategies to ensure sustainable forest management and enhance public benefits.

This State Forest Action Plan addresses federal and state expectations regarding forest resources. The plan focuses on six key issues: wildfire and public safety, sustainable forest products, forest health protection, community benefits from trees and forests, ecosystem services, and cross-cutting issues. It outlines programmatic resources and strategies to address these issues, aligning with national priorities to conserve working forest landscapes, protect forests from threats, and enhance public benefits from trees and forests.