WE ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION THROUGH:

COOPERATION & COORDINATION

The Forestry Division:

• Works cooperative with Federal, Tribal, state, and local agencies and private industry
• Through working agreements, provides coordination for seven state agencies with 190 local fire departments and five private fire departments
• Has ready access to:
  • Over 1,000 local fire fighting vehicles
  • More than 1,800 trained local wildland fire fighters,
  • Substantial national resources from the Federal agencies.

WE PROVIDE SERVICES IN:

• Prevention Planning
  Provide assistance to rural communities in wildfire prevention and hazard reduction planning.
• Training
  Annually sponsors 25 fire fighting courses resulting in training 750 local fire fighters
• Dispatching
  Annually processes over 10,000 requests for assistance
• Equipping
  185 reconditioned excess property, fire fighting vehicles and specialized equipment units are currently in use by rural fire departments