Vegetation management projects are guided by strict policy and guidance. The following are reference resources available to land managers.
- Bureau of Indian Affairs Release Memo
- PMS 484 - Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide
- Forest Management Policy
Guides
- Managing Long Term Fires Guide - June 2016
- Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models: A Comprehensive Set for Use with Rothermel's Surface Fire Spread Model (2005)
NWCG Fuels Management Committee
- Fuels Management Committee
- Interagency Publications
- PMS - 424 Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide
- PMS - 430 Interagency Standards for Wildland Fire Module Operations
- PMS - 481 Fire Effects Guide
- PMS - 484 Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide (2004)
- PMS - 485 Agency Administrator Ignition Authorization
- PMS - 486 Prescribed Fire Go/No-Go Checklist
Tribal Consultation & Fuels Management Direction
- 2011 OWF Hazardous Fuels Prioritization and Allocation System (HFPAS) Memorandum
- DOI Program Priorities Memo - June 1, 2011
- Federal Fund for Wildfire Control Management
- September 2007, Government Accounting Office GAO-07-1168
Vegetation Management Publications
- The True Cost of Wildfires - Western Forestry Leadership Coalition
- Fuels Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring Report, Interaction of the Dog Head Fire with Fuelbreak Treatments, Pueblo of Isleta, NM
- Northwest Region 2015 Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Report
- Wallow Fire Fuel Treatment Effectiveness On the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
- Response to the Rock Creek Fire to Prescribed Fire - Lloyd R. Fuller, PhD (June 2013) Fort Apache Agency
- Squaring the Triangle: Fire at San Carlos - Stephen Pyne (2014)
- Restoring the Land with Fire: Fire as Spirit, Fire as Tool