Work to confront the wildfire crisis continues in the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest region this year to reduce wildfire risk to communities and support forest health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service announced $131 million to begin implementation of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America's Forests," including $29.1 million in funds directed to increasing treatments on two landscapes in the Pacific Northwest Region. According to an agency assessment, less than ten percent of firesheds across the country are responsible for eighty percent of community exposure to wildfire. These initial landscapes are the first part of a large-scale, science-backed strategy designed to focus additional support to landscapes where treatments will have the most immediate and largest effect. In central Washington, the Central Washington Initiative (CWI) landscape spans national fores