Interagency prescribed fire planning and implementation procedures guide

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The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide establishes national interagency standards for the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These standards:

• Describe what is minimally acceptable for prescribed fire planning and implementation.
• Provide consistent interagency guidance, common terms and definitions, and standardized procedures.
• Make clear that firefighter and public safety is the first priority.
• Ensure that risk management is incorporated into all prescribed fire planning and implementation.
• Support safe, carefully planned, and cost-efficient prescribed fire operations.
• Support use of prescribed fire to reduce wildfire risk to communities, municipal watersheds and other values, and to benefit, protect, maintain, sustain, and enhance natural and cultural resources.
• Support use of prescribed fire to restore natural ecological processes and functions, and to achieve land-management objectives.