Tribe: Inupiat (Nuiqsut, Alaska); Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC)
View Source Document: Climate Change in Nuiqsut, Alaska
Year: 2014
Topic: Fire management. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Develop a defensible area around every building on Tribal Lands consisting of a zone of negligible fuels at least 30...
Mechanically manage fuels in the vicinity of the Housing Authority development, Tribal Headquarters, and other structures by removing or reducing...
Mitigate extreme fuel-loading hazards, especially those within 100 yards of buildings, caused by insects, disease, blow-downs, or previous fires, using...
Conduct periodic prescribed burns of interior forest and scrub fuels for the purpose of reducing fuel loads.
Develop and distribute to tribal members an educational brochure or fact sheet regarding wildfire awareness and safety to assembled tribal...
With warming the length of the fire season can be expected to grow, and local capacity for response, training and...
