Wildfire Management

Restore Corporate-Abused Landscapes and Keep Communities Safe

The wildfire that swept through Lahaina, Hawaii in August 2023 was the deadliest blaze in modern U.S. history. In California and other western states including Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Texas, millions of acres have burned in recent years, claiming far too many lives and homes. Western wildfires have covered large swathes of the country in smoke.

Americans are tired of worrying about devastating blazes and skies filled with smoke every summer. Yet Biden and Trump have not done nearly enough to address the worsening wildfire risk. 

As president, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will implement comprehensive federal wildfire management policies and support robust wildfire and emergency-response policies in communities at risk, which will lead to fewer fire disasters and deaths. His policies will focus on managing forests, wildlands, and wildland-urban interfaces (places where people’s homes and infrastructure come into contact with wildlands) by addressing all of the factors that contribute to major wildfires.

Kennedy’s wildfire management policies will:

• Stop big corporate interests from abusing landscapes and making them more susceptible to fire.
• Unravel corporate capture in the five federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management — the Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service.
• Restore and regenerate degraded lands.
• Maintain ecologically healthy, resilient, and fire-resistant forests and grasslands.
• Protect the nation’s remaining old-growth forests, which are more resistant to fire, and revamp forest management.
• Keep combustible materials at manageable levels using controlled burns and other methods.
• Utilize firebreaks and manage potential fuels in wildland-urban interfaces.
• Create community fire resilience zones in at-risk urban areas. 
• Clean up toxic chemicals released by materials burned in urban fires.
• Establish better wildfire emergency response protocols.
• Provide more support for wildfire victims.