In April, the National Park Service Fire Management Leadership Board (FMLB) released the
Wildland Fire Strategic Plan: 2020-2024. The plan describes what the FMLB considers the best course of action to meet the NPS mission and support Department of the Interior priorities over the next five years.
Among the key assumptions that anchor the plan is that climate change--along with increasing visitation and an expansion of the wildland urban interface
--will increase the complexity of managing wildfire. Accordingly, the impact of climate change is considered throughout, most notably in Desired Outcome 3A: Keeping Up with a Changing Climate.