This document presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan for the next 10 years (through 2015). The plan provides a framework to implement a national program of research and science application that aligns with and anticipates the needs of land managers and other clients and stakeholders. It recognizes the need to coordinate research activities with partners in other organizations and responds to fire and fuels management and research priorities identified in numerous reports. This plan takes an integrated and nationally coordinated approach to focus on the most important research needs by identifying priorities in three major strategic goal areas. (executive summary)
Articles, citations, reports, websites, and multimedia resources focused on rangeland ecology, management, restoration, and other issues on American rangelands.