discouraged, except to protect lives and valuable improvements on <strong>the</strong> land. Because it often has “exclusive jurisdiction”, most NPS firefighters are tra<strong>in</strong>ed and properly equipped to provide both wildland and structural fire protection services, as well as emergency medical care. Its fire protection <strong>in</strong>frastructure varies with <strong>the</strong> size and public use of <strong>the</strong> specific location and is widely scattered. The federal wildland agencies are not responsible for <strong>the</strong> protection of structures. • USDI Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS): Adm<strong>in</strong>isters National Wildlife Refuges with a primary mission to protect habitat for wildlife. <strong>Fire</strong> is seen as a habitat management tool <strong>in</strong> some ecosystems, but because of <strong>the</strong> small size of most refuges, wildfire from outside sources can be a significant threat to <strong>the</strong> whole refuge and is aggressively controlled. With <strong>the</strong> exception of a few very large refuges, <strong>the</strong> FWS has few tra<strong>in</strong>ed wildland fire personnel and a m<strong>in</strong>imal amount of fire protection equipment, rely<strong>in</strong>g for most fire protection on neighbor<strong>in</strong>g state or local government fire agencies. Federal Land Ownership Data Forest Service Bur of Land Management Bur of Indian Affairs Fish and Wildlife Service • USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA): Adm<strong>in</strong>isters Indian Reservations with <strong>the</strong> primary goal of protect<strong>in</strong>g and provid<strong>in</strong>g resources that contribute to <strong>the</strong> social and economic well be<strong>in</strong>g of numerous tribes of Native Americans. <strong>Fire</strong> is used as a management tool to meet specific planned resource management objectives and wildfire is controlled as a public Areas, <strong>in</strong> acres. National Park Service Dept of Defense 18 O<strong>the</strong>r Federal TOTAL Alaska 22,004,745 86,908,060 1,140,410 76,321,037 52,891,681 1,677,718 22,851 240,966,502 Arizona 11,250,693 14,252,778 20,718,207 1,716,858 2,629,633 1,219,717 2,751 51,790,637 California 20,627,691 14,556,074 191,020 323,642 4,615,013 1,753,493 434,695 42,501,628 Colorado 14,501,592 8,296,512 32,835 81,574 574,689 415,473 358,175 24,260,850 Hawaii 1 0 0 288,511 220,410 127,734 1,627 638,283 Idaho 20,442,651 11,847,328 55,700 76,068 86,866 14,402 1,067,840 33,590,855 Kansas 108,175 0 40,234 58,332 698 143,447 97,088 447,974 Montana 16,872,610 8,060,382 1,074,907 1,153,013 1,221,314 2,540 316,204 28,700,970 Nebraska 352,133 6,580 66,469 172,360 5,863 18,703 119,139 741,247 Nevada 5,815,856 47,844,391 1,233,000 2,318,069 165,500 484,965 1,699,739 59,561,520 New Mexico 9,326,599 12,770,569 8,349,148 384,251 371,827 3,180,226 453,865 34,836,485 North Dakota 1,105,779 59,717 866,896 487,654 71,640 2,112 1,273,320 3,867,118 Oregon 15,664,078 16,223,739 796,588 557,479 194,859 31,072 133,625 33,601,440 South Dakota 2,013,628 279,869 5,002,056 198,086 263,629 890 60,455 7,818,613 Utah 8,112,462 22,877,713 2,331,094 419,169 2,015,426 939,973 660,613 37,356,450 Wash<strong>in</strong>gton 9,174,956 370,110 2,602,254 186,369 1,932,401 433,251 752,979 15,452,320 Wyom<strong>in</strong>g 9,258,281 18,383,926 1,889,532 86,486 2,393,198 9,512 815,841 32,836,776 TOTAL 166,631,930 262,737,748 46,390,350 84,828,958 69,654,647 10,455,228 8,270,807 648,969,668 nuisance. Only <strong>the</strong> largest reservations have tra<strong>in</strong>ed fire personnel and fire protection equipment. Many small reservations receive primary fire protection from state or local government fire agencies. A recent development is <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>creased economic vigor of those tribes that have developed cas<strong>in</strong>os, which provide enough revenue that several tribal governments have developed <strong>the</strong>ir own <strong>in</strong>dependent fire departments. The roles and responsibilities of <strong>the</strong> wildland fire (state forestry) agencies <strong>in</strong> each of <strong>the</strong> 17 western states are outl<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> next section of this report.
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Disengagement allows a fire to grow
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