Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Firebreak Across the Great Basin

BLM is leading the construction and maintenance of a system of up to 11,000 miles of strategically placed fuel breaks to control wildfires within a 223-million-acre area in the Great Basin that includes portions of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah. Fuel breaks would be implemented along roads or rights-of-way on BLM-administered lands. Over 13.5 million acres of historically sagebrush communities on BLM land have been burned between 2009 and 2018 by wildfire and dominated by invasive annual grasses that increase future wildfire risk. The fuel breaks would help address the increasing frequency and size of wildfires occurring in the Great Basin.