Funding Failures Fuel Wildfire Risk on Tribal Lands


Mismanagement of federal lands and climate change have caused “the number and intensity of reservation fires to soar,” according to a May 2025 report by Lachlan Hyatt for High Country News. On the Colville Indian Reservation in Central Washington and tribal lands across the country, tribal wildfire programs are “underfunded…

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