mitted standards. This is to be accomplished by nearly doubling 

 the present level of preventive effort, detection, skilled fire-fighting 

 crews, training, supervision, and equipment. 



2. Development and use of new and modern techniques for pre- 

 vention, for suppression of fires while small, and for stopping large 

 fires while running and burning intensely. 



3. Reduction of hazardous fuel conditions to minimize the chances 

 of large fires developing and spreading to high-value areas. This 

 work will cover the most serious one-fourth of all land needing 

 such treatment, and will consist of burning 300,000 acres of highly 

 hazardous debris concentration, felling snags on 320,000 acres of 

 high lightning-occurrence areas, prescribed burning on 3.5 million 

 acres, removing roadside fuel on 37,000 acres, and clearing and 

 maintaining 12,000 miles of firebreaks. 



Speed, up-to-date equipment, and modern techniques are required for more effective control 



of forest fires 



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