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The Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team assigned to the Wapiti Fire has completed its emergency assessment of the fires. One of the main objectives of their assessment is to identify critical values at risk of additional damage due to recent wildfires. Once they identify those values, they outline the risks and suggest mitigation actions (treatments) to minimize future risk.

BAER teams created an executive summary that provides a glimpse into the scientific analysis and results of their assessment. The linked summary (below) contains a simplified summarization of the work performed by the BAER team. Please note that treatments identified in these summary documents reflect proposed, but not yet authorized, activities.

Forest Service officials are working closely with local and state agencies on immediate and longer-term recovery needs. Suppression repair and other mitigation work has been occurring in many areas and BAER recommended actions will begin as soon as practical. 

The linked report below is an executive summary of the team's findings. For additional information, please reach out to the BAER coordinators for the Sawtooth and Boise National Forests.

Sawtooth: Tom Stewart, thomas.stewart@usda.gov 

Boise: Matt Robinson, matthew.robinson@usda.gov